Considering that DLive has absolutely no real (technical) protections against censorship (unlike D.Tube and BitTube, for example). How long until they come under pressure for hosting controversial content creators and start censoring them exactly like YouTube does?

DLive's policy already forbids "hate speech" AKA free speech (from their TOS): [....]hate speech that directly attacks a person or group on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, disease, age, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity.

DLive isn't even particularly distributed is it? It's streaming is all built on a proprietary, centralized video streaming software service called Wowza, hosted on Microsoft's cloud if I recall correctly.

DLive has many chokepoints for censorship. This seems like a stunt to promote the Lino blockchain. Too bad DLive didn't stick with STEEM. Too bad they didn't choose something innovative and censor-resistant like IPFS to host and stream content.