the only way you get banned "sitewide" is if you get banned from your host lemmy.world but you can use literaly any other host as long as they have open signups, no truely global bans unless nobody will take you

its kirita and/or gimp for photoshop and kdenlive for after effects, I have never used the Adobe stuff and have no clue what exactly is worth the crazy price tag they demand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski#Manifesto per the wiki he thinks of the facists as a "kook ideology" but he was also anti-left guy so its really just him hating on everyone for the most part

i would guess a lot of the pro ai stuff is from corpos given the fact good press is money to them.