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> hosting content on their own servers that offends you

It's not about offense in the parent comment, it's about theft.

I see this as a reasonable response, given no additional context.

Yes but there is all of the collateral damage of other hosted sites who did nothing.

Which presumably impacts the hosting company's bottom line, encouraging them to remove the offending content.

When you steal something it means the owner doesn't have it anymore. How is this theft?

Pushers of the paradigm of imaginary property like to misuse the word "theft" to make the plebs identify with their position.