Probably not. That's how everything always get positioned, but it's very easy to find tons of people from "the other side" (or even others from "the same side")

Probably not. That's how everything always get positioned, but it's very easy to find tons of people from "the other side" (or even others from "the same side") who are breaking the rules that aren't getting enforced on. An example from Reddit, there was a known toxic sub who would always brigade other subs when those subs talked about how toxic they were, and it wasn't subtle. I remember one time someone said something negative about them in a very small sub I was a member of, the post had like 50 upvotes after 2 hours. I watched in real time as it went sub 0, with dozens of comments like "How dare you say bad things about us you scumbag". That kind of behavior was/is ostensibly against the site rules, Reddit never touched them, they were on "the same side" as the Admins. The cause and effect isn't "They violated the TOS, therefore they got banned", it's "I wanted to ban them, and TOS violations is my nebulous excuse".