Downvotes have no impact on speech, just rewards for that speech from our commons.
All posts, and any subsequent edits, are freely available on the chain.

However, as a stake holder, there exists the absolute right to use your stake to disagree with rewards on a post.
Reasons are nice, and find support in the crowd, but not required.
If you take the time to monitor the community discords you will see what has to be endured to keep the bots from spamming and dumping hive to zero.
When fraudsters post they take rewards from people trying to be real with us.
As a stakeholder, it is duty to pushback on the fraudulent schemes dreamed up by those that want to cheat the system.
If you are not flagging content, and hold stake, you are cutting your own throat.

I didn't like dan's leaving much at the time, but now 5+ years later, I'm glad he is gone because he is missing key points in his search to find the grail of perfect governance.

We don't want any musks coming in and mussing up the place, either.
Anybody actively voting with more than 1000mv is an enemy of every redfish trying to make it here.
When whales vote redfish get pushed below the dust cutoff and get no rewards at all.

@dlmmqb