Petition to allow all flags in this website

This topic is no about politics, is about the lack of clarification on the "flag showing" Chess.com's policy. Every single time someone calls for ban let's say, the Israel flag, the most used argument is that no flags should be banned in this website, so, why don't just allow all of them including the Russian one? Politics discussion is not allowed, but showing a flag is a political act itself, that being said, is not necesary ban a flag to support a cause... unless as a company you're promoting arbitrary support by allowing certain ones, and banning others, breaking the spirit of community of this forums itself. If that is the case, then this company is by far the most hypocritical one I ever seen in my life (and I saw quite a lot of them), which would also means there's probably a political reason behind the lack of a policy about this, and therefore, this topic will be blocked. but if I'am wrong, then we urgly need a policy about the use of flags in member's profiles, so moderators can stop the rampage of blocked threads regarding this topic.

I sense a lock

The only flag that is banned is the one that was banned by several international organisations and which are still mostly in place. Chess.com isn't doing anything out of line with them.

"Chess.com isn't doing anything out of line with them."

That doesn't mean that what they're doing is right. I think I can guess which flag we're talking about here (the Russian one), but it is supremely hypocritical for any organisation to do this whilst allowing the flags of other nations (ex. the United States, Israel, Communist China) that engage in behaviour that is just as bad or even worse. Politics and chess shouldn't be mixed together, and it's an absolute disgrace that Chess.com is so thoughtlessly engaging in such antics.

Why? Because this topic is far too "controversial", or "taboo"? Only someone with a very thin skin would ever think so.

because talking bout this always gets locked

It's a chess.com community guideline thing

That's an entirely different question and a much more subjective one. None of those other countries have had the same sort of sanctions applied to them, and neither has Chess.com applied any sanctions independently of their own accord. If the UN, IOC etc etc DO start sanctioning those other countries AND Chess.com doesn't, THEN you could accuse them of hypocrisy, but otherwise that's simply not true.

Whether those other countries should be sanctioned or whether what they are doing is "right" is a different discussion altogether and indeed a political one that leads to a lot of arguing and name calling for no real resolution, which is why Chess.com has banned that type of discussion in its public forums and why the mods will lock any threads that start or continue or bring in those type of arguments.