"( By the way. If you feel the need to "flag" as you read— and you are against censorship— then someone needs to award you a Golden Hypocrisy Award. You are miles afar from anarchy )."
I see the point you are making however I don't think this is exactly censorship. It does hurt the profits but this can be used to help keep people who don't deserve the power and steem they are gaining through fame. I don't upvote a post just because I like the author. Some people do. If you thought an author was getting too much for their content you can down vote it. It does in turn negate upvotes and essentially take away a voters desire to reward an author for their work which I can see as possibly against freedom of speech of the voter but it doesn't remove the post from steemit. Those who still want to see it can, and it can still gain upvotes from other users.

I enjoyed your post, I hope you have some thoughts on my comment