I dunno about that. Get down vote by whales and it affects how post looks. Images don’t show up without going through manually. It will appear but be muted and unattractive for users not familiar with someone to click further to open. Plus is u one you’ll be crushed by while it’s pushing self censorship. I remember early 2021 some didn’t like I was speaking on the shot. I saw newer accounts criticizing Ukraine Gov and they were zeroed out. But generally it’s not an issue. But if SHTF and we need to discuss they might crush us. It’s still better than rest 💯

Edit - Example of this ⬇️

There has been content removed from the blockchain, or at least that all the front ends have agreed not to make available. It may still be there, and people that can search the blockchain themselves, that can code a blockchain explorer, can still find it, but I cannot. Almost none of Hive's users can. That is pretty extreme censorship.

Any suppression of speech is censorship, even rolling your eyes at someone is (very mild) censorship. Shooting them in the head is censorship too. Tampering with their car, like Michael Collins Piper's, or seizing the bank accounts of their supporters, are all forms of censorship. DV's are censorship too. If you convince someone not to speak, you have censored whatever they would have said.

A lot never gets to the blockchain because of censorship, and I know of information that I can't get from the blockchain that I have seen posted on Hive. The blockchain is not censorship proof.