Moab isn't a moderator. I do know all the moderators and can assure you none of them work for Mcafee, as far as I know

I feel like you're looking at the wrong comment - anti virus software tends to be resistant to disabling, for somewhat obvious reasons and needs a human with an admin account to do it.

You also misunderstand the comment - it says that disabling antivirus puts your employer at risk of malware oe ransomware if you get hit by it, which is a legitimate concern. Even if you have local admin, if its a corporate system, as indicated by the fact its a mcafee enterprise system, you need to ask your corporate IT support, who might have tools to let you be excluded or disable it.

How do we manage such situations as a community of many sys-admins and not just a centrally managed censored community with too much power at the top  ?

If there was such a situation? Ask on meta. We'll try to explain, but the biggest issue I see is simply one of communication breakdown. We don't have a macafee mafia

Moab isn't a moderator. I do know all the moderators and can assure you none of them work for McAfee, as far as I know

I feel like you're looking at the wrong comment - anti virus software tends to be resistant to disabling, for somewhat obvious reasons and needs a human with an admin account to do it.

You also misunderstand the comment - it says that disabling antivirus puts your employer at risk of malware or ransomware if you get hit by it, which is a legitimate concern. Even if you have local admin, if its a corporate system, as indicated by the fact its a McAfee Enterprise system, you need to ask your corporate IT support, who might have tools to let you be excluded or disable it.

How do we manage such situations as a community of many sys-admins and not just a centrally managed censored community with too much power at the top?

If there was such a situation? Ask on meta. We'll try to explain, but the biggest issue I see is simply one of communication breakdown. We don't have a McAfee mafia.