Hey, @the-bitcoin-dood.

As you pointed out, there's quite a bit more to this than just political speech. While those into crypto and blogging here might be more lenient to hacking into some organization's or government's servers if it serves the interest of the people, it's still against the law. So, is extortion, demanding ransom, or selling the hacked information to the highest bidder.

There were people who were none to happy when Steemit Inc announced a new terms of use agreement last year. Now, we're seeing the first public display of enforcing the agreement that I'm aware of, and while there's an aspect of free speech to it, there's also the additional aspects of criminal activity.

I am with you here that there's plenty to be conflicted about. I think there are plenty of things the people should know about their governments and what they're doing. I also think that in order to protect the people, there are secrets that should be kept. Knowing which is which, which serve to protect the interests of the people, and not the interests of the government or those in power, is at the heart of this, and probably a discussion that needs to be had and come to terms with.

Steemit Inc. protecting itself against unlawful activity is within their purview, and does not remove the posts from the blockchain, nor does it prevent the account from future posts, as has been pointed out, too.

I think when this swerves into criminal activity, the freedom of speech part kind of falls apart.