What makes any other site acceptable? One of the main principles of modern western states is that only the police is police. This bit of our shared legacy come

What makes any other site acceptable? One of the main principles of modern western states is that only the police is police. This bit of our shared legacy comes from Max Weber, and is well worth reading, but the tl;dr is that getting rid of private law enforcement was a great step forward. The state sets up police and courts, and private entities (like the church) don't. If someone like the church wants to act like the police, that's illegal. If someone like the church wants to act differently based on information received, such as by harassing people in public based on private smears submitted by anonymouses, that's also illegal.