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RE: Downvoting, Can It Be Illegal?
Interesting topic. I never considered downvotes to be illegal and when I think about it then I wonder if any court out there would even take such a case.
Can you imagie being downvoted and losing 10 steem? or even 100 steem? Those would have to be very heavy downvotes to make anyone lose that much. And yet, it's less than 20$.
No court would care about it, I'm afraid.
Yours
Piotr
I'm not talking about one or two whale downvotes. I am talking about downvote harassment which means that an account with a very large amount of SP is downvoting nearly all of your content continually to try and prevent your message from finding an audience in the Steem community.
Not only is that possibly illegal for US residence to do, since that is intentionally seeking to stifle someone's free speech. But if someone's business was completely built around the Steem ecosystem and the flagging account kept downvoting your content consistently it can be very possibly proved as malicious intent to harm that person's business.
It is not just about the loss in STEEM/SBD rewards, but also in customer acquisition and brand reputation.