Here is the reply for anyone who wants to use it on Twitter. Feel free to use it or use the photo wherever you want:

Steemit Inc is a private company in the United States subject to all it's laws and, unfortunately, extortion, pressures, and manipulation. This is different from the Steem blockchain and to use the two interchangeably is incorrect.

All pictures uploaded are not on the blockchain. Instead they are one Steemit's servers which is AWS. Again, they are subject to all rules, pressures, TOS, and infringement notifications.

The posts in question are on the blockchain. Erasing them from any one interface's server is not removing it from the blockchain. There is no way to censor the data on the Steem blockchain unless the super majority of the witnesses decided to undo it. This did not happen.

It is vital for people to understand the difference between a private company using traditional server space and the blockchain.