Hive account@derekareith and Hive account@fubar-bdhr : Making content less visible is a form of censorship imho - albeit a weaker form. We could call it "soft censorship".
When Google is criticised for the order in which results for some contentious search term are shown they are routinely accused of (soft) censorship, and rightly so, since results on the first page are viewed orders of magnitude more frequently than those on, say, the 50th page.
We can also think about the issue in terms of accessing vs. finding. Soft censorship might not prevent people from accessing content, but it prevents them from easily finding it.