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Now who's being semantic? But, ok, I'll give you a couple of notes.
"There's not necessarily a threat of violence!" Of course there is. In the US, it's called "police brutality." In other countries, you get disappeared or have an "accident." Hexbear can make those threats, and they should probably be defederated for them, but they don't necessarily have the power to carry them out. A police state by definition does.
"If you're censored in one country you can still say that stuff in another country!" Sure, if you aren't thrown in prison. And if you're legally allowed to leave the country. And if you've got the financial means to do so. And if the country you go to doesn't have an extradition treaty. And all that assumes you even survive the initial censoring.
Anyway, you're trying to draw an incredibly spurious connection that isn't merited. "Not having a Nazi bar is bad, actually, because then you can't have an anti-Nazi bar!"