Imho, the main problem isn't censorship, but rather how absolutely broken and utterly scammy the whole peer-review system currently is.

First, it's important to note most of the research worldwide it's funded with public money.

When publishing, researchers face a choice. Either go for a closed-access journal, which requires giving the copyrights of the paper to the publisher, or pay several grand in publishing costs to publish in an open-access journal.

If they chose the former, then the institutions that have funded the research have to pay a subscription to the journal to have access to the research they have funded. If they chose the later, then researchers have to waste research funds in paying an overpriced "publication fee". 

To make things worse, most open-access journals are owned by the same companies that own the closed-source ones, so essentially you either pay them up front, or on a delayed basis. This is public money payed, to a select few companies, to have/guarantee public access to research funded with public money.

If this wasn't scammy enough, researchers have to review their peers' papers to validate the quality and veridity of their research. "To ensure professional and unbiased reviews" the review process has no economic compensation. Instead, researchers are incentivized to review peers' papers by the publishers' predisposition to preferentially publish "collaborating authors". Essentially, researchers are forced by publishers into unpaid work to guarantee a "fair chance" at seeing their work published. Since this is considered a normal part of the researchers' work, it is often carried out during normal working hours. This means that the publishers are outsourcing the labor, and associated costs, which is once again being paid for with public money destined to research.

In summary, public money is being used to carry out the research, to publish and/or access the research, and to review the research. All while the publishers drain a good chunk of the funds in one of the most profitable, well established and long-lasting scams ever created.

Fixing this shitshow requires more than an uncensorable platform to host papers and datasets. It requires a complete refurbishment of the peer-review system.

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