Currently it blanks out the content ( IE the post title, etc ) when you go to a mod removed post, but you will still see the title in the modlog.
Should we continue to blank out mod removed posts and communities, or show their content when you go to them?
for legal responsibility hosting an instance, if someone posts illegal content, whatever, it should be possible to hide it from public access.
Thats why we are adding a separate purge functionality to delete such content (including images). But I dont think it makes sense to have both remove and purge do effectively the same thing.
For now you can do manual DB deletes for illegal content, but I’m working on purge recently to do the same thing through the API / UI. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/904