Because I don't use other social media, I am unable to enter this (or any other) competition you run. Others do, so thank you for promoting our community by encouraging creators to put out content that makes a good impression.

Free speech isn't just a luxury. It is as necessary as air, water, and food for survival. It is easy to grasp that preventing people from understanding what helps them or hurts them causes them to fail to do the former more often, and to do the latter more often. When existential matters are at hand, it's a matter of life and death.

There are very few ways a blockchain can improve the lives of it's users that matter more than censorship resistance, particularly as other social media platforms increasingly censor their users and misinform them with propaganda. Hive became necessary when Sun Yuchen, an agent of the CCP that is the most flagrant censor and source of insipid propaganda in the world, gained the ability to govern Steem at will.

Steem is today completely censored at his sole option, presumably dictated by the Chinese Communist Party.

To me, Hive is proof that truth and facts are core features of freedom, and that oppressive tyranny will destroy our lives if we don't keep them. It is utterly necessary that Hive resist the ability of stake to weigh excessively on governance if it is to continue to resist censorship, and it is a matter of life and death today, with martial law being imposed on every corner of the world: Hive may be our best chance to survive pandemic, totalitarian despotism, and financial collapse ongoing today.

Thanks!