I don't know anybody here nor anything about politics. I know Steemit is and was a failure back in 2018 already for aforementioned reasons. So I don't understand the click-bait:y Title other than it's great for getting people the read your well-written articles here despite the unfortunate 'silencing'. I don't actually know what article got down-voted here or by whom but that defect has always been on Steem so ofc its on Hive aswell.
My concerns of your title:
-I don't give af about politics so I'm clueless why you deduce a random whale down-voting you a "far left". Maybe you've read some of the whales articles and he calls himself that. But if it was someone anonymous then I feel its a bit of a stretch..
(Note that MANY other names come to my mind about whales doing shi#y things without a single word to back up their actions..)
But again, great title to draw people's attention to the issue of the entire platform. I never understood why Steemit made the "more-money-votes-more" -concept in the first place..
-Which brings to my other issue:
It's not the "death of free speech" - that would imply that there ever was such a thing here! ;) Sadly, it was dead 1-2 yrs ago already when I first joined Steem and realized not to ever put a dime in it. :S On a more serious note those whales can't delete your posts entirely but taking the monetary incentive is a real bitch obviously, so I feel for ya buddy!
Now after the Hive fork, I joined it basically just for the blockchain games..
Shout out to @stayoutoftherz for sticking up for you in the hive.blog page.
I'd say keep writing the Free-Speach but don't let it consume you.
Thanks for the support! I knew that whales had an upper hand on Steem/Hive but I didn't realise quite how damaging a downvote from one could be. To be honest, I was surprised to see that my reputation was completely wiped out and rendered my account virtually useless on this platform. I don't think the downvote option should be taken away but the power of one whale to destroy an account for no reason other than disagreeing with their political views needs to be addressed urgently or it will be the end of this platform.
As for the far-left, I checked out the account that downvoted it and the ones tied to it and it appears to originate from the berniesanders account on Steem. That's why I put that in the title as I consider those on that side of the spectrum to be far-left. If it was someone anonymous or who had nothing to link to them those views then I wouldn't have included it but from I could deduce, it would appear they downvoted and ruined this account because they disagreed with what I'm saying.
You will have seen from my posts so far that I am not spreading hate, I'm only trying to share the stuff or make the points that the media is not. I want to have discussions, I want to see why someone disagrees with me. I don't want an echo chamber of people who feel exactly the same way as me. You'd have noticed from the comments I am eager to respond and explore these issues further. That's what I hoped this platform could be but sadly it appears it is not.
Unfortunately I'm probably going to call it a day on Hive and Steem very soon as this is not the platform I want to support, nor am I really able due to the destruction of this account.
I agree. Politics is limited talk. Most of the popular things on here really pertain to nothing. You have the same people posting consistently and getting up votes just because. I'm not mad at all. No. But let's be real here. A certain group of people run things even if It's decentralized. People don't want real. They want illusions & comfort. So let them fall to their own demise.