There is a ton of inconsistency on the moderators/admins parts on what you wrote above.
Clearly there is another agenda when consistency goes out the window while censorship is allowed into the window.
That is one side. However, my impression is that most of the 1MB-supporters think the censoring serves as a counterbalance to the higher level of public support BitcoinXT appears to receive. Furthermore, Anonymint here suggests that "mega-threads" like Cypherdocs are dangerous because they promote group-think and hurt diversity of the Forum. So he seems to believe that banning "threads with a broad scope" is necessary--in a certain sense--to restore open and transparent communication.
You are describing mega threads.
BadBear is spot on with his logic on why to ban them unless they are focused on specific topic, e.g. "Economic Totalitarianism" and "Economic Devastation". When grown men can't contain their addictions and it is dragging the diversity and rebirth of the forum down into a blackhole of addiction, then the appropriate action is to force a rebirth. If you guys try again to congregate into the same groupthink morass, then the same needs to be done again.
I'm not saying any of that makes sense to me. I just find it fascinating how we attempt to contort reason to justify otherwise reprehensible behaviour. I suppose that it's difficult, without the benefit of hindsight, to recognize the extent to which we are guilty of this ourselves.