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To the ideal of free speech, or censorship resistant.
I never supported the idea of unconditionally hiding posts based on flags/downvotes. I consider it a form of censorship and would like to see it either removed, or made a configurable option (as was recently done for NSFW; a huge improvement). When I downvote, I do so for the purpose of expressing my opinion on how rewards should be allocated. Sometimes I'm voting using the CLI wallet which expresses votes as a number between -100 to 100. The flag icon and hiding are features of the steemit.com UI which don't exist on the blockchain and I decline to consider as a constraint on how I choose to transact with the system.
Nods, that is clear and a position I can respect.