You can flag what you want, it's everyone's free choice to flag. I'll never flag a post. People are entitled to their opinion and I'd rather know what everyone really thinks and be able to address it than have them hide their opinions out of fear. You can't change someone's mind if you don't know what they're thinking.
And I think an advertising ban is stupid, like you've said there's already plenty of self-selling and shilling on the platform, why not ban all of that. Oh, then there'd be no point for over half the large posters to use steemit, that's why.
RE: STEEM: Do We Really Stand For Freedom Of Speech??? Advertising Ban or Censorship???