1. Paul is not influential in African Politics. Paul is influential in tech.
2. Paul runs a press that specializes in topics in tech
3. Paul and his mods goes out of their way to kill threads that discuss this topic when it deals with other people, people who are almost entirely powerless to defend themselves and so rely on the crowdsourced power of others to defend them and discuss the topic
4. Paul then uses the same press to complain how he was treated.
Draw your own conclusions regarding Paul's relative complicity in what happened to others and himself.
And there are of course far more incidents than the three I mention.