No. It's denial of free speech for monetary gain. Branding a comment as a shitpost is akin to controlling the narrative. Controlling the narrative was a corporate tactic from 10 or 15 years ago. If a product was heading for a tough times, e.g. a threat regarding climate change, they'd get out front with a spin that evoking an emotional defense such that duped followers would find it very difficult to reposition. For instance Mt. Gox stolen bitcoin that was worth about $700,000 when btc was around $60k, was pegged as having a value of about $5.3k by the Japanese bankruptcy court rather than accepting that its value would be changing over time. The result was the trustee in this one instance was obligated to pay $5,300. But Coinlab, continuing to accumulate billable hours even after being effectively warned off by the SEC fraud division, sued for $75,000,000, then up'ed it to $16,000.000,000 ($75 million to $16 billion). Then they teamed up with Fortress (you know those guys, they buy up starter homes or used starter homes in good locations, offering well more than a typical young couple can pay, 20% or more over asking). The Fortress/Coinlab team had the trustee put a choice before the Mt.Gox depositors who by now had been waiting years for some recompense. The depositors voted to take the offer that was something like getting 2 btc it your Mt.Gox loss was 10btc. Of course 2 BTC is better than 0.013 btc (btc around $40k atm) but is sure as heck isn't 10 btc. I would post comments on reddit about not liking how long the process was being drawn out, how there was almost no communication, how the bankruptcy court created conditions where the trustee was only required to shell out a small fraction of the stolen btc's worth. Case in point, the Fortress/Coinlab lawyers were drawing out the process. Trustee sold btc at what is not a low price and gave that to Fortress/Coinlab. That money into btc would have accumulated well to finance more law suits. Drawing the process out allowed Fortress to offer a price around $10k/btc to depositors for their btc claims. And that's still going on. So, my complaining posts were okay but then the sub forum on reddit got a new moderator who quickly branded my posts shitposts and shadowbanned me. I suspect the moderator change went to a shill for Fortress, Coinlab or both. One point tho is that Fortress made offers for claims, they added a level of credibility to bitcoin. If Fortress wants the bitcoin then it has a value which will increase. Still if someone gets 2 btc from the deal when they had 10 btc on deposit, there's still 8 btc out there that the depositor won't have. There is a fix for this. Marc Karpeles hasn't left Japan to respond to an indictment in Chicago. Vinnik, the Russian who washed the stolen bitcoin, has much of it in wallets he controls, or did until the US seized his wallets. He's in jail in France. Suppose the US cracked Vinnik's wallets and made US Mt. Gox depositors whole and gave the remainder to the Mt. Gox bankruptcy trustee to work out what non-US depositors or Coinlab/Fortress will get. Then ban Marc Karpeles from ever traveling the US.