Free speech has never been dependent on anyone's upvotes on Steem. Trending is a front end feature. DPoS is plutocracy at the very core. The distribution of tokens must be towards value generating activities across a large enough number of people for the protocol to be viable in the long term.
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There are limits of free speech, if one is only within one's own echo chamber there might not be any incentive go beyond one's social peer group; if one does, meaning entering the territories of forbidden knowledge one will have to pay the price