Flagging isn't censorship. I can still read the posts and comments of the most heavily flagged and lowest rep posters here.
Denying payment to a post isn't censorship either, unless you want to argue that all of Reddit is censored because no post or comment get paid there.
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I disagree with you, and flagging is also an abuse of power.
Not an argument. Care to elaborate?
Well, in this post by dantheman who is talking about censorship, I posted a meme which got flagged by non other than dantheman himself. The meme was "if god ever wanted to be a fish he'd be a whale" (I'm not reposting it because I'll probably get flagged again). I hesitated before posting it, but thought WTF, let's see if he'll flag it. Just 1 flag brought down my reputation from 40 to 9. Which goes to prove my point, that the reputation system is unbalanced and unfair to little fish. And that my meme was right and shouldn't have been flagged.
Yes, I found the comment. I was able to see it and read it. The flagging didn't prevent me from viewing it. I'm not saying it is good to get your posts flagged, but it isn't quite the same thing as censorship. Just call it flagging.
I think the best way to handle the flagging issue is that if a post gets more downvotes than upvotes it should get flagged, but if it gets more upvotes than downvotes it shouldn't get flagged. The way it is now a post can get 10 upvotes but 1 downvote it would flag it.
It was indeed unfair to flag you without warning. Unless you were warned?
I do think whales should be much much more hesitant with the use of their flag and save it for more important things like catfish and plagiarising sockpuppets.
Flagging CAN be an abuse of power. But just as its everyones right to upvote what they want, anyone can downvote what they want. And if someone doesn't like a meme you post, its within their right to downvote. But just like in the real world, actions have consequences, so if enough people think a flag is abusive, their reputation will come under scrutiny.
I'm guessing there is history between you and @dantheman, hence your foreknowledge of a downvote from posting something like you did. Knowing something will be received negatively and doing it anyway without any real value added (and from the way you describe it, that post would be a non-value-added).