I'll skip going through the whole drama and support any move to protect un-censored-ness of the chain-- hive, blurt, or other:

https://blurt.world/blurt/@jacobgadikian/finally-some-boobs

I'll also say that Hive's ancillary communities (slack/discord/carrier pigeon network/whatever) and front ends are privately operated and that their operators should get ban-hammery in order to ensure that folks don't think that super-nasty behavior is being given tacit support.

If I saw super-nasty or illegal behavior in any of our ddooddads you bet I'd be after the folks running discord/whatever to toss out the nasties with immediate effect.

If content was ludicrous enough better bet that I as the operator of blurt.world would make sure it didn't show up on blurt.world.

Folks can always access the chain. Yes, even with the VPN added to the stack.

The witness role has just expanded to include ensuring that no one connected to you is molesting the network, that's all.