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The mod banning these users is the same mod who made the posts they downvoted. This is mod abuse, turning the downvote button into an auto-self-ban button.
The message is "If you disagree with me, you will be banned"
Monitoring and banning users for using lemmy as intended to signal boost your opinion should be grounds to have all mod privileges removed. This behaviour undermines the integrity of the server and the wider fediverse.
They certainly are censorship in the sense that it reduces other people's ability to see that content.
Can you blame censorship when you’ve voluntarily decided to participate in a network that has a voting for visibility system?
I'm not blaming anyone I'm just saying it meets the definition of censorship.
I kind of see your point, but I wouldn’t say it’s censorship