if you're a maintainer on an open-source project or a leader on a small team and your policy for "what behaviors are allowed there?" is "everything that's not literally illegal", what this makes you in practice is a bootlicker for every single government out there, including a whole bunch you might dislike
you're not a huge country that has to accept people of different views because not doing so is denying people their human rights
if anything, having a clear moral position might make you more attractive to people who share these views or are more afraid of contributing to other projects because of their marginalization
as much as we want to believe that the internet is a separate space from "the real world", in which prejudice and bigotry doesn't matter because everyone's identity is just a string of characters, it is not as true as we'd like to think
a lot of people's online and real-life identities overlap, and especially for people of prominence it's impossible to avoid that completely
sometimes people get doxxed or harassed IRL for their online behaviors
some platforms cause measurable harms for people or influence the physical world
if i am in a position of leadership over any online community, placing myself as "apolitical" or trying to impose "morally independent" rules just means that people who are most capable of influencing the real world via the internet (which usually means corporate oligarchs and/or right-wing trolls) will eventually have free rein over my communities