I appreciate your intent to be factually based. However, you're simply not noting the reality that DV's are taxation. They're appropriate for spam, scams, and plagiarism, because those are essentially criminal acts that require censure. The code allowing DV's for any reason, or none at all, deranges the very basis of social media and has produced the abysmal user retention Hive has experienced, literally worse than any other social media platform of consequence.

It needs to end, so social media can actually experience censorship resistance no centralized Web2 platform can produce. Twatter was actually forced to be censored by Starlink because those are centralized, and Telegram now has to deliver IP addy's to law enforcement for the same reason. Hive can't be extorted in that way, but because of unrestrained taxation Hive is even worse than either of those Web2 platforms.

You don't need to approve of speech to enable social media to prosper. Speech you vehemently disapprove of is critically important to free speech. Same with me. That's the point of free speech. The point of social media enabling free speech on Hive is that creators can be emunerated directly for their speech, and flagrant punitive taxation utterly prevents that potential from being achieved, and this kills the Hive.