They've been doing it since day one. I've been a victim of their Stalinesque censorship in the distant past. They wouldn't even provide me a reason for the banning. They said we don't have anything in our notes here as to why, but you are banned and that's that.
They employ gaslightery for peer-pressured thought control through social tension modeling.
Lemmy.ml is another platform marred by this kind of devilish megalomania in its munted mods.