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.