Does the hive blacklist, a penalty imposed on voters for expressing their opinions, reflect a sincere and fundamental belief in the freedom of speech?
A few things here...
It's not a blacklist. It was an "exclusion" list for the initial airdrop. Subsequent airdrops can still take place to those who did not receive the initial one.
Nobody was "penalized" for expressing an opinion. Some users (a very small number, in fact) were simply not rewarded with new tokens because of their actions that assisted with the centralization of the Steem blockchain. There is a difference between expressing an opinion and committing acts that can potentially and actually harm others - in this case, financially.
Nobody's freedom of speech has been infringed on this chain. Clearly, you are still here, not only able to post content and express your opinions, but you are actually earning from that content and those opinions. So where have you been blacklisted and silenced?
RE: x