Again, you are confusing freedom of Speech with ability to earn on that speech. Everyone is free to speak, there are always reactions of some kind to it, whether it be clapping, booing or silence. The market is always free, free to be manipulated also, free to have governments brainwash, free to have terrorists enact their brutality.

If Steem is killed economically because of flagging, it has nothing to to with freedom of Speech. And like @edicted said, a front-end could quite easily display it all. This is Steem, almost anyone can make a front-end of some sort with a little study. Might not be pretty, but this is Steem so it will blend in.

When it comes to earning though, this is a free-market system also and the 'rules' are well known. People like it when they fall in their favor but are quick to complain and scream unfair when they don't. I know enough about living as a minority and taking abuse to understand that no matter what happens, it is my experience to live and my journey to take and whether it empowers or scars me is up to me.

Fair and unfair is relative. half the world doesn't have access to the internet, 1 billion live without electricity and people are complaining about earning on their freedom of speech on a platform that protects what they say? It seems very first world problem.

No one is forced on, no one is forced off. Suppression is self-suppression only. There are some people in this world that no matter what happens to them, they can't be suppressed. You can't be granted freedom by any master or change in the code. You are free or you are not.

I am yet to meet someone truly free because... we all need something. When something is needed, it is a weakness.

The root of all suffering and that stuff...