What do you think the difference is between moderation and censorship? Because Reddit/Twitter/Facebook in 2009-2013 didn't just remove illegal content. They re

What do you think the difference is between moderation and censorship? Because Reddit/Twitter/Facebook in 2009-2013 didn't just remove illegal content. They removed tons of legal content too. They removed spam. Facebook removed pornography. Reddit in particular allowed individual subreddits to moderate/censor basically on any criteria whatsoever. If you went into a random forum in 2009 about dogs and started spouting nonsense about how we should all eat dogs, you would get kicked off of that forum. They wouldn't patiently hear out your controversial point-of-view. Go back and read some of the usenet threads from this time period, there are people getting banned just as a joke; the paradigm of 'benevolent dictators' running forums was already pretty widely accepted. What definition of censorship do you have that doesn't include removing explicit content, self-promotion, and off-topic posts?