from day one has been to create an ecosystem that allows anyone to become a part of our decentralized network
“anyone” — That's not true. On day one you had a script generated black list which several false positives. It was never anyone.
own their data, connections, tokens
Not true either. You confiscated funds with the aforementioned blacklist.
Others might have forgotten. I haven't.
give more details and evidence? this sounds interesting.
Look for blacklist on github: https://github.com/openhive-network/hive/issues