You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Are Flags really Censorship? - Continuing the discussion at hand
It is censorship , not decided by a company but decided by the community.
The days STEEM gets more distributed ( many years in future ) it would be less of an apparent issue than what it is today!!
Demonetization is a form of censorship , perhaps not the most severe form of censorship but it certainly falls under the umbrella of censorship.
In my humble opinion.
Should we have this type of censorship? YES of course !!
Distributed censorship is the way to go.
I think the correct word is a financial deterrent... let me ask you this.
Let's say you sang at my party (let's assume you are a musician) and I decided to not pay you for your services. Imagine, we agreed on 100 bucks, and then 7 days later (when its time to pay) I tell you, I won't pay you, I decided against it.
Did I censor you?
A more analogous example would be ,
If I am a musician and I get hired for gigs but you come along and use your influence in society/market to disallow me payment for my work already done and also not get hired in future ( implicit threat of flagging bringing down the reputation).
2 real life examples of this
Not to say , that would be the fate of STEEM but its one of the possible outcome if STEEM isn't distributed more evenly.
Also consider , majority of the people when faced with financial deterrence will self censor . That , in my view , though is not the classic censoring but yet another variant of shadow censoring.
To conclude , to call it NOT Censorship is incorrect. The questions we need to ask ourselves
a) do we need this type of Censorship ?( Yes , IMO) and
b) where do we the draw the boundaries for what gets censored/flagged ?
I see, the confusion lies in the semantics... So in a sense, we agree a lot more than I suspected.
Now, here is an important piece of the puzzle, something we as stake holders (you included) have to be cognitively consistent.
If we understand that a big hurdle is the skewed distribution of SP, the fact that a small number of accounts hold the majority of the steem power. Then, why are more people not powering up? Why is someone with 500 Steem power among the 1% of the platform.
Check out that number... 500 Steem Power and you are part of the 1%
Extrapolate that into a meat world situation.
500 Steem Power and you are a Kardashian (i'm being ridiculous intentionally).
How hard is it to power up 500 Steem Power? Specially for Western Societies...
For current users:
We only have 50k active users on STEEM right now with a lot of them ( it seems) from 3rd world countries who are more than content making 1-2 $ a day on this platform. That has a momentum of it's own but that is certainly not the investor class.
For future: ( mostly my speculation)
As we get more content creators on-board ( OC types and Youtube celebs) they bring their audience with them and they stand to gain a lot of STEEM and rival the stakes of 1st gen STEEM investors. That gives me hope that SP will be more distributed in coming few years.
Our home grown Steemit stars mostly (not all) tend to be Investor class , which leads to not original content ( or original but creepy..whose name shall not be mentioned) in the trending section.
Also wait for the instagram T&A ( tits and ass) show , certain kind of influencers who don't mind obliging the request of fans...they are gonna be BIGGGG
lol