In my offline world, most people I know see that the problem is not mainstream media, politics, and education, but those who think differently.
That's sad, yes - the majority of people are heavily conditioned to be extremely mediocre at best and to try to hold back human evolution. It's a terrifying situation and one which means that those with intent to thrive and even to survive must have strong wills and be open to relocating to be around those who respect real freedom.
Downvoting for measurable reasons, such as plagiarism and spam is a useful feature that promotes higher quality posts. However, people sometimes choose to go beyond these limits and try to make out that channels they disagree with are actually abusers or negatively oriented people. This is essentially what Web 2.0 sites have been doing as they censor the world, but on Hive it is more transparent and their attempts to cover it up are always poor. So we have a situation where certain entities seek to centralise and dominate a decentralised network under a variety of poorly reasoned excuses. This does not incentivise quality content as intelligent, free thinkers will leave. This simply motivates the mediocrity that was already highlighted.
Hive will not remove your account and that is a major bonus, but you can be excluded from the main features of Hive that set it apart, so this is an important area to find balance in.