the defenders of core's decision act "strange" (ddos, censorship)
Or, an impression has been created that they act strange. Discussion of DDoS comes from individuals, not Core devs, and you already got an answer to the moderation/censorship, no?
I think that by not officially speaking out against the censorship Core is complicit in the censorship. They have even honored Theymos by allowing him to be one of the signatories of the road map when he is not even a developer himself.