You haven't been silenced in any way, in fact I found this post without any trouble just now. So what is the problem? Those who hold a stake in Steem blockchain use the upvotes and downvotes to direct the money flow, as johal stated, he had already upvoted this video when it was uploaded by another account and decided that it's not worth rewarding the same content twice. Is this censorship? No, it's reasonable and logical action to take as a shareholder.
You're not censored in anyway, my comment here is a proof of that. I hope emotions are put aside and bigger picture is taken into consideration as well. I know it can be hard at first but downvotes are part of this system just as upvotes are and both are important in policing this ecosystem.
In Reddit, mods can shadowban you, delete your posts and so on. That's censorship and there's a difference. I would have thought someone who's been so long in the cryptoworld would know that difference by now.
I guess "Money is clearly the root of all evil. Makes people very insecure." is the most important part in your own message.
Hope to see you come back to your senses eventually after the shock of receiving downvotes shakes off. I know how it feels.
How does it feel? Another one leaving, that potentially will take again users away from this platform...
Maybe the Mantra is wrong... lol...
There are people who understand how the system works and then there's those who don't, can't please them all as with everything in the world. So as an answer to your question: I feel neutral about it. Steem isn't perfect, I've yet to see such a thing on the internet but we're getting closer. I'm sure the parties involved in this case all learned something new, like downvotes aren't censorship and perhaps downvoting a post to 0.00 is a bit excessive when the big picture is taken into consideration but we're all humans and we learn as we go.