Ah, the Hive account@sneak comes out of the woodwork. You must sense your time is come. That pesky Hive account@ned and the decentralization he favored has finally been eliminated. Now is your hour.

Come forth, and strike!

"Everybody's allowed to vote their stake. Always has been."

No. that's a lie. After the witnesses suspended the founder's stake from voting, until the exchanges fraudulently reinstated it, that stake was not allowed to vote witnesses.