What's going on now is the dekulakization of the internet. Oh you are a prosperous farmer/reddit moderator who thought you owned something, well here we are going to take it from you and put it under government/corporate ownership and sell all your grain/userbase off to pay for imports/ next quarters earnings and starve you to death/flood you with awful ads and propaganda.
It's going on with real farmers in the Netherlands and in a similar fashion with other assets people thought they owned just about everywhere as we convert to the own nothing economy.
Its not just for farmers in the Netherlands, it happening to everyone who thinks they own anything. In some countries we are back to government telling what we can grow or not grow on our own fields.
No one was ever deceived with promises of monetary compensation for their moderation work. Moreover, moderators in particular are a very small subset of the site's total users, so they have even less claim on data ownership. Comparing voluntary message board moderators with farmers starving to death sounds like satire.
It's going on with real farmers in the Netherlands and in a similar fashion with other assets people thought they owned just about everywhere as we convert to the own nothing economy.