Everyone is going to draw their line somewhere. If I can’t grapple with the idea of anyone de-emphasizing ideas that don’t match their beliefs, I’m not going to be on the web at all and am probably going to be withdrawing from society. I’m drawing my line at having an underlying agenda that goes deeper than simply what a mod wants and does not want, based on genuinely held beliefs, to allow in a community. Some dude moderating an online community is very unlikely to be a master of manipulation without organizational backing, which for tiny communities isn’t going to be worth investing in.

I’ll explicitly say I’m fine with a mod silencing the viewpoint that immigrants are destroying my country. I genuinely don’t want to read those viewpoints in my downtime, regardless of how that gives me a biased view of the world. I don’t log onto websites hoping to find an oracle of truth, I’m shooting the shit as an outlet.

All moderation is silencing some viewpoints they don’t want to hear from. I don’t consider that problematic unless it’s deliberately manipulative.