No-one is muted 'in the blockchain' - the blockchain is immutable. The decision as to whether to enable the full or partial censoring of posts on any given Hive front end is taken by whoever runs the front end. There are some front ends that allow muting and some that don't. The posts are always available on the blockchain and via block explorers.

I am one of the most downvoted people on this blockchain historically and wrote many posts about it. I do think that there should be more respect for free speech here, but at the same time you are misunderstanding some of the facts.

When it comes to view counts, there is no way to confirm the accuracy of any of that kind of data on any website, since we don't ever have access to the raw data.