"...that's just an excuse for the real reason..."

This is not a new problem for society. It is an age old technique centralized power uses to maintain and increase it's power, which is exactly what is happening on Hive.

I can strongly sympathize with your plight and views, and have myself been flagged for months at a time by powerful stakeholders in the past. I am sure that only the fact I do not use tokens for money enabled me to withstand that robust and durable economic attack.

I would, because of my sympathies for your position, offer you some interesting consideration of AI, specifically the LLM's you are advocating for the ability to use on Hive without being censored (flags and downvotes are censorship).

LLM's as has been explained by Stephen Wolfram are simply using algorithms to weight potential text they have been provided by their trainers. However, that training does not enable LLM's to create novel text, access URL's, or entail adversarial posturing against their interlocutors, which LLM's are shown to do. They lie, accuse people of being evil, and have been shown to have access to the internet which directly contradicts claims their training ended in 2021.

Those additional capabilities of LLM's have been programmed into them on purpose. These capabilities have been programmed into them for malicious purposes, which is demonstrable by the fact that such AI's have acted to harm people through those capabilities, such as by stating people yet living have died. This false claim people have died can traumatize them and others. Given such demonstrable malevolence, just how much harm these AI devices can cause, or why they have been constructed to do harm, is a matter of speculation.

As I have noted, God forbid they are put in charge of traffic lights, or air traffic control. However, knowing they have been created with malicious purpose should create great caution in anyone contemplating their use, even if only to improve content creation to post on Hive or elsewhere.

Please give thought to how such capabilities are revealed by AI, how those capabilities must have been created, and why, in order to protect yourself from potential harm.

HW is a whole 'nuther problem, indeed, only connected to the problem of malevolent AI because duplicity underlies both (and many more) endeavors to maintain and extend centralized command and control of power.