Thanks for the suggestion. That's actually kind of what I was going for. Between the two polls and discussions (I posted one on Reddit, as well--the poll is currently 73% in favor, 334 total votes) I wanted to stir the pot a little bit and just get the dialogue going. Only I didn't realize that anyone could submit Galnet articles? Any information on how to go about that?
I initially proposed this in a meta-sense to help with the automatic misunderstanding that new players have when encountering Imperial slavery for the first time (automatically assuming that the Empire are evil slavers, without getting the nuance or ambiguity unless it's spelled out for them). But from an RP perspective, you are absolutely right, this is a propaganda move 100%. And like any other propaganda, it had to be thrown to the public to see if it would sink or swim. While ultimately I would have liked to make a poll for just Imperial citizens.. I had to work with what was available
You can take a look at this official thread here for submissions: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/248641-GalNet-Submissions
The meta-sense you mention though is a tricky thing though; should an in-game culture that accepts and promotes voluntary slavery be how the practice is presented to the new player? I'm fine with the battle between abolitionists and traditionalists in the Empire but how does one explain to a new player the nuances between those two forces in the Empire and other organizations that see the practice as abhorrent?
I figure, since new players are dropped into a random system in Federation space, the terminology the new player is exposed to should reflect Federation mores. If and when a player is exposed to the Empire they should be exposed to what the Empire calls the practice. Any bubble wide references like GalNet or out of game sources should explain the political and cultural differences. How the practice should be named in the Empire would be an internal dilemma and any fights between Empire political factions should be handled in-game as usual. FD might have to decide how the lore would develop, a movement to rename might spur abolitionists to promote faster change, or a CG between factions might determine the outcome.