Furthermore, why is a US political party being brought into this? Is the title supposed to convey some kind of statement that isn’t “oh it’s one of those weirdos”?

Yeah, I’m not getting the outrage. They don’t want to deal with the potential headaches of legal issues from piracy, and they acted. Not like we don’t have a bunch of instances to view pirate communities. It doesn’t make them bad guys, and I don’t view it as censorship.