There is no way to enforce Open only in the game's current model, at least in any way that makes Open distinct from Solo.
Peers can be unilaterally rejected with both out-of-game (firewall) and in-game tools (block), even in Open. The former is probably technically against the game's ToS, but is largely undetectable and thus unenforceable. The latter is fully sanctioned by Frontier.
Stop giving them your money.
The voting mechanisms always seemed absurd to me.
Even if it should, unenforceable rules may as well not be rules at all.
It gets better.
Say they made 5C against TOS, how could one distinguish a 5C attack from a Red team attack from just regular forting/undermining?
Cases would get absurd at ludicrous speeds.
Those who say this isn't blurry are just wrong. Plain and simple.
I think the most fair and even observation I can give is that while none here should be accused of botting, exploiting, 5C etc. All here have taken advantage and benefit of those that have.
Once again, having eyes on the Imperial op in this case, I cannot see intentional 5C going on. Only targets to undermine, undermine progress etc etc.
If there are shady actors doing things away from the rest of the group, that's not something anyone here can control. I mean, let's get real a moment. If you are organizing the PP efforts of 4-5 organizations against a target, are you reasonably going to stop because someone cries foul, or someone completely unrelated gets shady? Nuh-uh. No-one here would do that, even if they say they would, I flat don't believe them.
I say this to be very clear, that I think it would be wise for all sides to step back from mudslinging and accusations, because honestly between discord and this, if I were to take everything as read, both sides would be utterly monstrous to each other, and fair play would be so far off of the table that it would be sitting at the bottom of the mid pacific.
We can all promise to be good, and not perform deliberate 5C warfare on each other. But, as noted by myself and others previously, nothing will change.
Who knows. Maybe if Hudsons bubble continues to burst, maybe Fdev will clue in that there is a problem and fix something? I personally doubt it but can anyone here argue that it would take anything less?