To suppress visibility of those thought to be spamming or posting plagiarized/inappropriate content. What is the definition of censorship? To suppress... to defend it as anything else is simple denial.
You act as if a system used to discourage certain acts, not banish them is used to banish certain acts by discouraging them.
It doesn't banish anything. The point of the flag is to CURATE CONTENT, to give it or remove value from it, to vote for or against it so many shares with so much of your voting power.
Absolutely correct from your technical standpoint. I guess the fact it can be abused for other purposes (including the intent to destroy an account one doesn't approve of for one reason or another) is a completely different subject perhaps deserving of it's own different post.
Apologies for spamming, I will try to restrain myself in the future.