No, this is not about a difference in ideology. I hate cancel culture just as much as the average person here, and if you read my post carefully, you'll see that I wasn't defending it. But let me be clear here. His post wasn't just lazy clickbait; he's literally making up a story, claiming that TBL is being cancelled for transphobia when there's no indication of that whatsoever. Instead of linking to an article about supposed transphobia in TBL, he simply links to the quote page on IMDB. It points to malicious intent. And again, this is a repeat offense.

You're right, shill may be the wrong word. I suspect that the intended effect is something along these lines: someone just reads the title, assumes it to be true, talks about it with others, and then discovers that TBL isn't being cancelled at all. As a result of this, they will start doubting other things they read here as well, and no longer have the confidence to mention them out loud, so that fewer people will hear about those things. Or they just want to reduce the quality of the website so that it repels intelligent people and becomes a far-right echochamber. Voatification, if you will. And to polarize people, so as to create division. These things may sound far-fetched, but shilling is very common. For example, there are hundreds of thousands of people who shill for Israel on a voluntary basis. They download an app that notifies them of opportunities to shill. And intelligence agencies have enormous budgets, of course. Attempting to destroy Saidit and similar sites would be a tiny project for them. I'm not saying that this is what's going on – I really don't know. But I suspect it's something along these lines.