from the historical and continuing censorship of creators of content odious to well staked individuals and the Hive oligarchy.

It is this bit. Hive empowers creators and it is these staked users who delegate power to them through votes and other ways. The value of the token is dependent on these staked users and the demand on the token and, by way of this, staked users do what is in their best interest (act how they want) to satisfy their desires. A content creator might desire reward, but they know that the stake decides what is rewarded and very importantly, what is not rewarded.

If a person wants to drink clean water from a shared river, they will do what they can to stop people polluting it. The definition of what is "pollution" might change from person to person, but each stake holder has a stick with a net of varying sizes to do what they think makes the river cleaner, for them. You might not agree on what they consider pollution, but they might not agree with someone shitting in their drinking water. There is a lot of shit and much slips through the net, but at least there is the chance to filter out the biggest chunks - but the only one's who can, are those with a net.

It is natural that people will protect what they own from what they believe is harmful to it.