If I couldn't accept that downvotes may be healthy for the ecosystem, I would spend time on another chain without them. There are plenty. It is anti-free speech though. Many posts are obfuscated through downvoting and the coercion of shilling is another murky area. Regardless of what is correct or not, what is being proposed is not in alignment with what Musk is seeking. People just want Hive to be an end all be all to everyone's problems without actually listening to the person on the other side. It's a lost cause and if this hackneyed mob can't bring Larimer into the fold, they will never reach Musk. Its just a simple fact.
Consider what free speech means by the types of people the ACLU represent. Its meaning is different than the rainbow farting unicorn representation that people have diluted it to sound like.
What is anti-free speech is only voting things you agree with.
Unless you vote things that upset your apple cart, you aren't a free speech supporter, you are an agreeable speech supporter.
This is one of the points missed by larimer, and nearly all of the curation gangs.
Dissent is essential to finding the truth, ergo, free speech supporters vote things that make them angry.
Things that diametrically oppose the very fiber of their being.
Absent this type of speech all you have is an echo chamber.