I think such a list should exist and should be publicly available. Ideally I would annotate the list but I don't consider that a priority for this stage. Just names is all I'm looking for at this point, but if you happen to have a link handy I'll take it. I'll be asking for help with this on multiple sites and in the end I'll share it with each site that helps.

Names I have so far off the top of my head:

Joe Biden, pushed for mandates in both the public and private sector as a requirement for being employed.
Bill Gates, On multiple instances news anchors advocated universal lockdowns until everyone was vaccinated and Bill Gates expressed support for the idea.
Justin Trudou, actually implemented mandates as a requirement to employment.

Like I said, comprehensiveness is the actual goal. I'll take anyone besides your cousin who said something at Thanksgiving dinner. Any article written, statement made on TV, tweet, or policy implemented in public or private sector, the goal is to get all of it. I'll likely put more work into after asking around but a good seed list will help me recognize that this is a list people want.

Nothing is going to be done with this list specifically. This is just a list for everyone to have.

I've been thinking about how tor and anonymous networks need to be the standard internet for social communities, especially with potential for war looming, even being slightly inconvenient to the state could be costly.

The problem is that tor is almost entirely just crime. It's a big turn off to normal people even though normal people should be on it and shouldn't be writing any of their opinions on clearnet, no matter how innocuous they think their opinions are.

But perhaps I've just failed to find it seeing as the criminals have much more budget to spend on marketing and getting their name out there at every gateway into TOR because they actually have a dollar to make unlike people who simply want a free place to chat without contributing to the norm of submitting content to the most useful data-collection operation on the general public the government has ever had access to.

Has anyone heard of such forums?

I have heard about dread, but it's pretty much 90% down right now.