Banksters are intent on achieving a global tyranny, and the pointy end of that assault is psychological manipulation. Factual information renders their propaganda weapon useless, so they are absolutely dependent on censorship, which Hive resists because the oligarchs govern it that way.

However, the primary interest of these oligarchs is personal aggrandizement, and the record of HF's, self-voting, circle jerks and the like clearly reveals this. This fact is easily ascertained and trivial to use to persuade the cabal governing Hive to support the imposition of the nascent global tyranny by threatening financial ruin.

Given the $T's being spent to censor the world and push the psyop that justifies the New World Order, as Hive stands out more and more as a vector for factual information the incentive to censor it increases as time goes on.

I don't think it will be long before we see the sudden imposition of censorship on Hive, or the replacement of extant oligarchs with Goldman Sachs sockpuppets a la Steem. In fact, I think Sun Yuchen's takeover of Steem was the initial attempt to do this, but the Hive oligarchs felt slighted and Hive exists because they weren't satisfied financially by Sun Yuchen's profits. They want to get paid to roll over.

Carrots and sticks, buyouts or concerted financial assaults on their assets, will quickly sort our covert owners into actual supporters of freedom and decentralization and greedy bastards. Since the record of their governance of the blockchain indicates they are the latter, I am pretty confident the rhetoric of decentralization will continue to spew from their lying mouths while they brutally censor anyone who speaks the truth, just as Sun Yuchen does on Steem today.

It's not a new model. They don't have to invent the wheel here. I can't count the number of examples in history where it has been implemented in the past. I can't count the successful examples of such covert leaders resisting that pressure to crush society either, because there just aren't any to count.

So, I reckon it's highly unlikely the decentralization rhetoric has any basis in actual fact, and their real motivations have been revealed by their actions to better profit from the blockchain during prior HF's.