I really do appreciate this concern.

When I was appointed to play this role for this specific community, and given the power to affect the use of our free upvote bot, which essentially provides free money to our users, I was a little skittish about them using the official title of 'Sheriff' in regards to it.

However, in regards to what I enforce, I am as close to the 'legal authority' to enforce it as there can be.

While I do share my information with community groups like Hive account@steemcleaners, the real power I have to Blacklist for our community bot, was given me by a vote of the rest of the leadership team of the PALnet server and it's community Minnow Support Project.

MSP Governance Document
Formation of the MSP Anti-Abuse Team

I can't stop you from posting whatever you feel you should on the blockchain.

I can only control whether we allow our free service to be used on it.