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RE: Why STEEM Cannot Be Stopped: Not By The Banksters, The Government, or Zuckerberg!!!! Another Reason Why STEEM Could Make You Insanely Rich!!!
However I think big companies like FB, Google etc can do real damage to the Steemit platform by just censoring it, not showing up in search results, blocking any active Steemit promotion on the web etc. Right now if you type the exact title of a post in google search, no steemit webpage shows up.
Another point good be, that facebook could essentially buy up a lot of Steem and become a whale. And start to screwing with the system.
But that would be some nasty business tactics. So that probably would be their first choice. Also if crypto get's more regulated. Such actions would probably be illegal ones Steem hits mainstream.
Steemit is just an UI
Google can only censor few domains
On each and every passing day new UI will pop up. They can't censor every domain.
Instead for competing with each other, why don't we and they start attracting customers
No one will win this war.
That is a valid point and Steemit, at present, is highly dependent upon the search engines.
Of course, I can counter that with the fact that decentralized search engines are on their way. There is one that I believe did their ICO and has the product in beta (I dont recall the name off the top of my head).
So the stranglehold on search is only temporary too.
People would simply get to know the website from online forums and word of mouth. Something similar was attempted on Russian new sites. It didn't have much of an effect and steemit is far more popular and my articles with less than 50 views had come up on the very first page in duckduckgo.
They potentially can, but it takes time for the Google bots to crawl the pages and spit back the Google search rank
It wouldn't be unusual for them to do such things, heck even buying all the STEEM possible and changing everything. They would and will throw money at something to keep their cause going.
And then two witnesses get together and fork the thing.
As I stated, they dont have enough money to keep up with the number of times that Steemians could fork this thing.
Maybe so, it won't be able to be done for long due to the less "tech friendly" administration in the US at least. I do think these dirty tricks will be played upon us for a while and eventually will fall on deaf ears. The Rockefeller way of "anti branding" is not going to work in the long run. I actually came up with a post with some similar sentiment feel free to check it out if you'd like...
https://steemit.com/politics/@cryptkeeper17/the-bloodless-american-fiscal-revolution-will-now-be-digitized-section-1
I think i agree with @joshcash
its not true @xyzposter people believe in steemit then anything out three that both google and facebook can offer, and "believing is the secret to possibility"- Joseph Jegede.
Steemit Up you go!!!