Hive account@mrbearbear - hey man , slightly disagree with your view point , as follows

Take any social media platform , one only succeeds when either they content is gold (Phiily D/ Casey N / others) or they have actual gold (CNN/ Comedy central/other big brands). Let's call it sweat equity vs sweet equity....those are the rules , they may not be fair but those are the rules.

With this context , to your points-

1. Free market , you can bid as much as you can afford , what's wrong with that?
   Either you can bid or cannot bid , once it is ok to bid there can't be any limits.

2. Money talks , that's life.
   Kind of sucks for rest of us.

3. Charity is not going to get us further in this venture.
   As it is the platform is in it's initial years , it's time to put in the sweat equity. If/when it goes mainstream , whatever little minnow support is there will be vanished pretty fast.
   Possibly you have tried running a facebook page/ Instagram page or Youtube , it's cut throat competition on those platforms.

4. As it is pointed out in other trending post today , unless there is monetary incentive for people to clean this stuff up , It's never going to happen.

5. Well yeah , it is sort of decentralized censorship.

Mean no disrespect , just disagree