I mean, I see merit in the position that monopolistic corporate entities, which you are forced to interact with if you want to participate in modern society, ha

I mean, I see merit in the position that monopolistic corporate entities, which you are forced to interact with if you want to participate in modern society, have government-like power over people and should be held to similar standards in terms of civil liberties. But Reddit is effectively just a big message board. Such interpretation would force every small internet forum to either become a [0-9]chan or a closed space for invited members only. There is lots of middle ground where the owners/the community polices some speech and you can reasonably, realistically just go somewhere else.