Um, so you consider trending - where posts most amply supplied with paid upvotes exclusively dominate - to be an example of free speech? I am a bit nonplussed by that. Could you please elucidate just a little and provide some reasonable justification for considering the most heavily promoted group of posts on Steem as somehow representative of free speech?

It would be nice for my cognitive dissonance to dissipate, if only a little, regarding your comment.

Thanks!