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First it started with banning toxic people in their discord over anti LGBTQ posts. The company said it didn't have plans for them and were banning people being toxic because they didn't want the predicable hate mongering to follow .
Once they didn't get their fix via discord to bash the queers extremely disingenous spam posts on Steam Forums around rainbow capes (which the company supposedly said they had no plans for). Between "Geee I hope this company doesn't go woke" to "I'm queer and I demand pronouns and rainbow capes and such" devolving into a
anti woke feeding frenzy. They did this to farm 
jester points for one and to harass queer people playing the game to deny them an escape from the IRL suffering the fash were enacting by the state towards queer people.
When that didn't produce the effects they wanted / got bored of they went out of thier way to attack the community manager for showing empathy asking people to listen to the suffering of Black people during BLM protests. She also said upfront Helldivers 2 is satire. Which melted many froths.
yeah they've been pretty strict in keeping spam and constant nagging people out of their server
some LGBTQ+ people got banned for spamming and baiting, too
it sucks but i understand it and of course this all happened which unfortunately proved them right in their stance to keep the game tongue-in-cheek because of what you've pointed out
the moment they add in flags and capes that are america or thin blue line punisher skulls the assholes are going to feel vindicated and it has to be that nothing real-world-political overtly seeps in