Can you code a front end?
No but there are plenty who can. And there are other options. I dont use ecency but Leo doesint hide posts or comments based upon Hive voting. In fact, it does nothing with them.
And 3Speak doesnt censor videos to my knowledge. Maybe they are doing things on the back end I dont know about but I think anyone can post whatever they want. Would it apply if something such as porn or really racist ranks stay up? I cant answer if they would take it down or not.
I actually misstated the facts above. Hive censorship cannot be mitigated by code, unless code that eliminates the ability to tax forthright speech is implemented. The ability to censor spam, scams, and plagiarism (may be) is necessary to Hive, and this makes censoring free speech almost impossible to prevent.
It doesn't matter at all that the information persists. Censorship through financial taxation is one of the most effective tools to control populations that has ever been created, and DV's on Hive well demonstrate that competence.
I apologize for my dull-wittedness. I am exemplary of the dull-witted all too often.