A touchy subject to be sure, and a gray area in general. I personally found the mod much too far over the line and thus find little reason to complain about the decision for its removal.
A content rating system, as has already been suggested, may be the most reasonable compromise that could be taken on ModDB. A system similar to the ESRB (But perhaps a bit better, since Mature is rather broad). Allow mod creators to set what rating they think their game is, if enough people feel that they are not being honest (e.g. Setting it to Everyone when there's dismemberment) it can be reviewed and changed if the creators refuse to change it themselves to a more accurate rating. I'm sure people would complain about this too, but more reasonable ones should agree this doesn't infringe on Free Speech, but still keeps people who don't want to see such content from seeing it.
Ultimately though, this is a privately owned website and not a country. Talking like the constitutional rights of a handful of countries can really apply here is hardly rational. This is not some grave -public- injustice.
Terms of Use state that this is: "..not a pulpit for individual expression of destructive wont, rage and abuse at the expense of others."
I know a lot of people say it is harming no one else, but there's not really definitive fact that it is or isn't. Which leaves it up to personal opinion. And apparently in the opinion of ModDB it is.
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Uhhh, hello there! Just a simple girl with a love for drawing and games here. Yup. Nothing to see. Does anyone even read these things? Or am I simply talking to myself? Is that possible, to talk to yourself through typing? I suppose it's not technically talking, but it's still conversing with no one other than yourself, in which case why even bother typing? It probably makes me look quite strange to anyone watching, but then that would mean that they are indeed reading this and means I'm not talking to myself since there is someone out there reading it. Right?