As you ask, yes I would find it amusing and I wouldn’t consider myself as a victim as I see the funny side of it. I can also see that others might not see that and be offended and feel frustrated. You are entitled to take it seriously. We are all different and find different things funny and also get offended differently.
What prevents me from finding it even remotely funny is simply the lack of transparency.
I feel like any action that furthers the distrust of written media and adds to confusion and misinformation in this day and age is playing with fire. There's often an angle from which it is justified, but to actually achieve the desired impact and change people's opinion and what they put forward into the world, I believe discussion and respect are more effective long term measures.
For example:
But as long as the R1 can replicate or improve upon that (we all hope for a global shutter) then I would say that Canon is not the best.
Without context, the change makes this user look like they are writing none sense.
So now, each time 'the best', 'the greatest' and a potentially large number of other, as of now undisclosed, phrases is used in a sentence, it has to be substituted with the d word in order to determine if a poster made a valid statement (or joke), or if they are actually whacky.
Or in the case of Maximilian, making it so posters have to question their grip on words when proof reading their posts
after posting.
As I said, of course CR guy is in his right to do it. But it is a disservice to the forum members who contribute a lot to this place, making it one of the most enjoyable online communities I know.
And of course the precedent is not great. If even a simple meme is valid justification for secret censorship, it is just reasonable to be more distrustful and critical of interactions on this platform going forward, and that's a shame in my opinion.
That's my view and reason for not seeing the humor. No point in elaborating further, though of course it would be appreciated if there was more transparency going forward.