No, but yes.
Everything Reddit does these days is for the sake of the shareholders, advertisers, and Spez’s whims. They’re not intentionally trying to destroy Reddit the website as much as they’re trying to turn it into algorithmic social media slop that promotes doomscrolling and advertising revenue over community and genuine human interaction.
Throw in a sprinkle of Spez aspiring to be Elon Musk’s left shoe, and you have absurd censorship designed to drive away dissenters and users who don’t conform with Reddit’s target audience.
Comparatively speaking, politicians here are pretty inexpensive. It only took one twat a couple hundred million to own the president.