@New_Challenger Overall, I think lichess has done a good job with their cheat policies and I agree with most of what you said. However, I don't see any reason to ever investigate people specifically because of what they posted on the forums, which was admitted in this case. Mods even went as far as saying if the guy had just stayed quiet he probably wouldn't have gotten caught. I don't personally think the site is flat out corrupt, but do want to stress the point that the view of the site being unbiased regarding cheating is everything. If that is compromised then people will leave, and adding politics to an unbiased atmosphere is very dangerous. At the very least here, becuase of how the mods handled this people now know they can cheat and avoid detection.
For me, this climate change stuff is beyond being unsavory, it has potential to compromise the integrity of the chess.