Keep in mind, dan, that @ocdb isn't just flagging without reason. Louis is creating good content, but I do remember those 1-3 minute long videos taken from one stream, which raked in huge amounts of rewards. If you disagree with people disagreeing with that, you're disagreeing with the "free-spech" spirit of Steem where people can downvote what they want, which is needed to distribute rewards. (https://steempeak.com/steem/@therealwolf/clash-of-steem)

Additionally, there was still no censorship happening here. The post is, was and has always been available via steemd. It's Steemit.com that is actually allowing this "censorship". 3speak.online for example, could decide to simply show posts anyway which got downvoted below a certain threshold. Similar how Steempeak is handling it.

With this said, I do understand Louis final statement:

I also have money invested in this platform in the form of Steem Power. I find myself questioning why I would have money invested in a platform that silences me and inhibits my ability to have my voice heard and make an income.

This is exactly what I talked about in the post I linked above (Clash of Steem) as well as this one: One Currency To Unite Them All. If people, such as Louis, loose faith in the underlying currency, because they're being bullied (from their PoV) via downvotes, they have no other way than to sell Steem. If this were an SMT, they could simply sell that and buy into another one. SMTs could also freely decide that certain behaviours are not acceptable. (Similar how nopal4u or muting works on palnet) If someone isn't happy with that decision, again, they could buy another SMT.

In my opinion, we need to make sure that we can all unite under one currency, powering the decentralised social media and other apps (such as Splinterlands), without being split by our believes on downvotes, upvotes, the reward-pool & co.

Anyway, don't let your Thailand time get spoiled. Cheers.