There are many highly upvoted articles even today that are less of a tech story than this one.
It’s just a polarizing and divisive topic, because it touches politics and religion and war. If we wanted polarizing and divisive content we can just watch cable news. We don’t have to interrupt peoples work day with annoying content.
It deserved to be flagged into oblivion and it was.
Because they are literally the same thing. Any "apolitical" moderation stance is simply investing in a specific political ideology.