Actually I've personally downvoted flatearthers as they were plaguing steem in the beginning so there's not many of them getting trending attention anymore. As I said my downvotes aren't based on the content but more about the engagement your posts get even though they are trending for many hours. Here's a tip, https://hiveonboard.com/what-is-hive let's you earn some referral rewards from bringing in new users. If you would mention Hive to your big following on other platforms and get them to also comment on your posts here and engage with your content you could earn some extra hive off of their post & comment rewards. Now this may not fend off all your downvoters, some may just disagree with the rewards for other reasons but I personally wouldn't be downvoting as I focus on the engagement aspect and only adjust the rewards down a little bit (for instance I removed one of my downvotes on one of your posts recently that I felt was overdownvoted).
Your followers can rest assured that they can never get banned or censored but it's important for you to understand the difference between being downvoted and censored first. If you need a good example to show the difference I'd suggest checking out my curation project that is literally being censored on Steemit: https://steemit.com/@ocd whereas on Hive all active posts and history are still visible: https://hive.blog/@ocd
I hope you do keep posting on Hive, though, and be more social either with the users here or with bringing in your following from elsewhere and engaging with them. Wouldn't it be great if you could vote up the best commenters with real rewards to at the same time filter and have those great viewers coming back to your next post?
Censorship is any disruption - not only more effective disruption.
Please use the dictionary definition of censorship, which has remained unchanged for decades.
Flags are censorship.
What mechanism on Hive is different than Steem in that regard? None. Only those presently controlling governance is different.
Seventeen consensus witnesses can censor or ban anything they want.
Please speak forthrightly of these matters.