Your arguing something I'm not.I'll note I'm close to this because I write editorial and reviews for living. I have written negative reviews and articles on specific works. I satand by those words, but some attempt to accuse that as a negative because it will led to X being added or removed, or a game they enjoy not getting a sequel. That's largely not my problem. My job is to put my honest feelings out there in a coherent manner. If those words causes a content creator to rethink their decision on their work, yeah, that can happen. My words matter. Your words matter. Their work matters. This is all a part of the discussion.
Likewise, responses to my work, as long as they're civil, are fine. That's the conversation. You can absolutely decide a review is useless. That's the point. You can make your voice heard, saying it shouldn't have been published. How that's handled is up to the publisher. (See the Kotaku article, which they ultimately apologized for. They pull the article too. Is that censorship? I don't think so.) Speech comes for all sides, and it may lead to action, but it, in and of itself, is technically not action. And making it so is just saying, "Do not criticize the things I like!".
Look, when the James Gunn thing happened there was no honesty about it. It was far right people weaponizing outrage for a "win."
They didnt actually care that James Gunn made those jokes. They defend those type of jokes constantly. But they used it.
Outrage has been weaponized. Its proven to be effective. Its politicized.
The vast majority of the people fear mongering have not even seen Joker. That's a fact. The discourse has reached a point where quite a few people straight up don't even want the film released and would happily see it pulled. That isnt some level headed review over natural discourse of the themes of a film. It's people actively wanting to censor a film they havent even seen for fears incels and alt right people will latch onto it. This discourse around the film is dishonest posturing and has almost nothing to do with the actual film because they havent even watched it.
It would be a little different if it had already come out and we were discussing its themes but we arent. People have made up their minds and dug their heels in the sand. And some of the reviews like the time one are straight up garbage and are a sad excuse for professional.