If my memory serves me correctly then those who did have a different opinion then what the poll was set up to address were taken off not because they were offensive but because their opinions weren’t inline with what the poll is trying to get across.
It isn't a poll, it's a
petition. I wonder what kind of twisted logic leads someone who disagrees with the object of a petition signing it anyway. If those signatures have also been removed, even though abusive language wasn't involved, this is hardly the stuff of which police states are made.
In any case, if I had a fiver for the number of times I've seen people rant and rave about something being "unfair" and "dictatorial", before signing on the dotted line along with everyone else...