As your fellow flaggee in that particular event, I relate to your concerns here.
"...my only other alternative is to either modify my behavior and say only the things that @sneak wants to hear."
"Or run an awareness campaign so that enough people can get woke to the point where the devs are willing to do something about it."
While those are both options you have, it's a false dichotomy to claim they are the only ones.
What we did there was to simply ignore the stake swatting us like flies, and speak our minds. We were fortunately rescued by @haejin, who countered @sneak's and @bloom's flags, for which I am grateful yet.
I don't think you NEED to embark on a campaign to alert the media to the fact that flagging is censorship, albeit not complete erasure of data, such as Youtool is currently undertaking. I don't think it would be a bad thing if you did, but you and I survived that flagging, and @skeptic has rebounded multiple times from being flagged into negative rep.
I am sympathetic to your concern over the issue, and particularly as censorship is striking against the broader internet while the enemedia brays about fake news (while making up the worst of it).
In the grand scheme of things, I see a powerful community on Steemit that opposes venal flags such as we faced that day, and can support free speech through initiatives such as #freezepeach to prevent that enemedia pogrom against our voices from prevailing here.
Thanks!
Hey there @valued-customer, I've opted for the awareness campaign. An infowar if you will.
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You are right though it was a false dichotomy, as there is usually always a middle path or two.