RE: Feeling Good About Steem Again! Here's My Side of the Story.
While I reckon your assessment of success is likely the most common, I don't think it's ubiquitous. It doesn't apply to me personally, for example, as I'm not here to focus on financial aggrandizement. I am deeply concerned about the flood of censorship and other totalitarian seizures of power ongoing globally right now, and consider the censorship resistance of Steem critical in the effort to retain freedom potentiating prosperity to the degree possible.
The emergence of novel mechanisms for censorship on Steemit of late has alarmed me, and I fear the window for discussion may be closing too quickly to enable us to develop nominal means of preserving our ability to interact even here openly and forthrightly. While we yet can, I agree with you that it's good we do.
Thanks!
I absolutely came here to be able to speak my dim witted mind without fear of having my musings deleted for not adhering to community standards.
I have what I feel are legitimate concerns that humans aren’t keeping up with technology and the premise of free speech is in jeopardy.
I’m not however concerned with what stinc does or doesn’t do as they have no final say in what’s immutable. It would take an unprecedented amount of collusion and conspiracy to censor any one account on all front ends. While steemit maybe the dominant landing site and most widely used steem blockchain platform for now does not really mean much as far as censorship goes.
The truth will always rear it’s ugly head in due time and I haven’t been able to find a more suitable place to prove this in our brave new world than this bc.
For now, yes we can say whatever to whomever and confidently believe that right
will be upheld. Not agreed upon or supported but that’s another matter entirely.
Cheers
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In fact the novel mechanisms I referred to are in action now, censoring dozens of accounts on multiple front ends. There is a list of accounts on Github that are so censored now. No posts, comments, or even the names of the accounts casting votes are displayed on multiple front ends. While there seems to be good reason to do this, my position has been that accounts should have this authority to censor, and not front ends themselves. The public nodes provided by Steemit, Inc. seem to be the mechanism that prevents such content from being displayed by front ends, and that may be the only reason multiple front ends participate, as they use extant public nodes.
No good mechanism for centralized censorship has seemed to remain long unused, and I do not expect this mechanism to fail to be used for less savory purposes, against other accounts than those on the unreedemable list on Github.
This is bordering on making Steem useless right now, and there's little reason to expect that won't happen soon.