A debate over immigration to America is raging on Elon Musk's - X.com (Twitter). Twitter rewards reactionary comments with attention and it can be challenging to distinguish signal from noise. Some users are claiming their verified status has been removed for the opinions they expressed criticizing Musk, or espousing anti-immigration opinions. Some large accounts have been temporarily or permanently suspended from Twitter. It is dawning on some users that Twitter is not a free speech platform but rather a permissive speech platform.
Every single comment, joke, or meme -on Twitter - is stored and routed on centralized servers owned by Elon Musk. The rules of acceptable or allowable speech are dictated by Musk. If Musk arbitrarily decides that a user is not allowed on Twitter, that content is essentially lost.
IF YOU DON'T OWN THE KEYS YOU DON'T OWN YOUR SPEECH
Inleo.io and 3speak.tv 
SIMPLIFIED VIEW
Hive users are assigned various account keys for posting and interacting with the blockchain when a HIVE user account is created. To change data written to the chain a user must have access to the keys - making HIVE a remarkably censorship resistant piece of infrastructure. This doesn't mean that HIVE is the wild west - individuals platforms have rules, guidelines, or norms. The reward and incentives mechanisms of HIVE encourage high quality content, not just free speech, but meaningful speech.
The current guidelines for 3speak - https://3speak.tv/intl/faq are easily understood and promote free expression. As a technical note - video content on 3speak is stored in modified IFPS implementations, with the textual components and meta data residing directly on the HIVE blockchain. The HIVE blockchain offers feeless transaction with near instantaneous resolution for most simple tasks.
HIVE USERS HAVE MULTIPLE OPTIONS
For brevity I have only referred to INLEO.IO and 3SPEAK.TV but there are a multitude of high quality applications built on HIVE. For a partial list visit https://hive.io/eco
Breakout communities like the https://www.thebbhproject.com can even create their own frontends, tokens, and incentives to create a unique aperture for accessing and viewing HIVE. Unlike a centralized platform like Twitter - there are multiple tools and pathways to access and use the data on HIVE, and the person who owns the keys to the HIVE account is in control of those decisions.
