I am very grateful to them for creating HIVE.

NOW, for HIVE to become truly DECENTRALIZED (and content neutral) we need to get their attention somehow - and switching witness votes seems to be doing the trick.

You can always switch votes back at any time.

One of the key points here is that @blocktrades has enough stake to appoint the top 20 witnesses themselves, so for the rest of us, voting is mostly symbolic.