Reddit does seem to give subreddit mods a good deal of credit in their flags of users.

But a lot of it is dishonest, if you get traction criticizing a powerful group, they will find an unrelated reason to ban you. Because we have no rights to fair enforcement of the rules, they don't have to bother to make their accusations believable.

Israel is the main one I'm familiar with that they do this for, but all sorts of other stuff too.