You accepted their bad framing and failed before you even started thinking about the issue. 

Do these "redditors" realize reddit is just a website on the internet which they also can't moderate?

Do they live in cities where citizens have private homes in which they can discuss anything without being moderated?

These people are just repeating authoritarian talking points. The reason is that people in power need to control the frame in order to continue their campaign of squashing freedom. You are playing into their hands by even considering this framing as anything but what it is: mistaken or poorly thought out at best and abject propaganda at worst.