I must have annoyed someone, free speech anyone

Yes and there lies the problem. So there are good things about hive. how do you keep the good and remove the bad. we now have second layer tokens that can assist and do alot to correct the problems.

Their argument is the money on content is not yours until it's paid out and in a way that lacks democracy one person can come along and take from you what you feel is earned.

So bitcoin myk has created a system in the hive ecosystem that hopefully corrects this problem. here is some resources on how it does that

@mykos/hive-rep-score-tokenization