This is a matter of perspective. While I tend to agree, because this results in non-mainstream-opinions to be censored easily, the company Discourse advertises this as the major feature of their forum software; they call it “We’re civilized.”, “Discourse is the place to build civilized communities” and “Civilized Discussion”, see, e.g., What is Discourse? | Discourse - Civilized Discussion and for the consequences Forum censorship - The Issue (the original message) and Forum censorship - The Issue - #52 by olf (in the same thread).
These settings can be configured, but as Jolla just rents this Discourse instance as SaaS by Discourse Inc., the original default settings are and stay all applied. It is supposed to create a virtual environment, in which everybody is (forced to be) happy and kind to each other, or leaves; IMO the aspect “forced” rather creates hell on earth, socially. Furthermore Discourse promises that the users moderate themselves by the mechanisms employed (hence in combination with SaaS is advertised as causing zero admin effort), which understandably is an appealing prospect to a small, understaffed company.