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>>feross+(OP)
You can list 1000 reasons why moderation is different from censorship, but people in power can achieve the same censorship goal with tools provided by moderation.

e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32416424

So as a result they are practically the same thing.

>>est+cB
What you're talking about is clearly censorship and not moderation by the OP's definition - "blocking speech that both sides want to hear".

Your link is actually great for his point: people in power (OnlyFans and Meta) blocked something that both sides (their competitors, and their competitors' users) wanted to hear - otherwise they wouldn't have needed to block it. (For the sake of argument, I'm assuming that the lawsuit's claims are true - I have no idea if they are but it's not pertinent to this point.)