Since when does the freedom of speech guarantee you a payment? As I mentioned above, upvoting someone else negatively affects your payout also and flagging someone positively affects everybody else's payout. You may not agree with how it works and that's fine but flags existed when you signed up and being here is purely voluntary. Your freedom to say what you want on this platform is not reduced by flags. Upvotes and downvotes (flags) are both votes on how your post should be rewarded. Referring to it as "authoritarian" cheapens the word. This isn't North Korea.