Yes.
Do you think being downvoted is an attempt to silence free speech on the blockchain? Given there are ways to retrieve what is written once posted or a frontend made to ignore the reputation system in place? Do you think being downvoted is a form of crime against free speech? Do you think an upvote is a form of free speech? do you think a downvote is a form of free speech? If I make a post about how @jeffjagoe could not extricate his feet from his mouth and the guy downvotes that post, would he also be against my free speech?
Nah man, it's always been about the rewards people cry about here. Anyone can talk shit about something or someone and get likes (upvotes) but it's like alien to know ideas, people and somethings can also be disliked (downvoted).
Going back to the case of @eloy-drawing who is a confirmed fake content creator. There's a steemit account version that still able to monetize the stolen works and no one would give a fuck on that place to downvote or even learn about the faker. This means opportunity costs taken away from the real content creator without them even knowing it. Am I being an oppressor of free speech if I keep on downvoting the faker here? nope, I just take away the rewards. I don't have control whether they want to still post shit on the account.
People have always been free to post whatever they like here just as they are free to upvote or downvote whoever they like as part of their freedom of expression for like and discontent for the content. Drama happens when they think that freedom bears no consequences like I don't know, being deluded that there can be actual people that can dislike the content and disagree with the rewards?
Now if this was facebook, that's a different story as whatever I say can be deleted out of my control if the admins don't like it. But it isn't. You can't delete my posts. No one else can. It's the blockchain and people are crying for the rewards lost, not the loss of free speech.