HIVE is censorship free, being demonetized on a post sucks but it is not "censorship", I have lost 7 YouTube channels during the recent purges and that is censorship, your work gone; all the comments gone, all the interaction gone. Just gone, not "reveal post", gone.

At least when a post on HIVE gets zeroed you can still see the post, it is not memory holed from the internet. Also you can see who the flaggot was, and you can then call them out by name because the votes are all public. On YouTube some trolls can have issue with you, flag every video you make, and you have no idea who is doing it or why the video is down, and by down I mean gone and you get suspended from uploading anything else.

HIVE having the downvote thing can lead to personal vendetta's and people's posts being hidden, but at least it is not YouTube or Facebook, the post is still there. I think HIVE is censorship free but not asshole free, and so far is the best platform at dealing with these issues as best as possible.