RE: Are Flags really Censorship? - Continuing the discussion at hand
Well I don't want to see as an user nsfw content that is not tagged as so, don't want to stumble upon plagiarism, hate speech, animal cruelty or any thing that common sense would "ban". Freedom is a great thing that is broken is ABUSED and I think flags are necessary for the platform in order to survive. I truely believe so. And some contents yes they're only hidden, but there will be cases where if they cannot be deleted (according to new laws) could result in law infringement by the platform... like imagine a despised boyfriend posting private pictures of someone or a minor or whatever... there are cases and cases, and there should be always tools for a quick response. We can's expect everyone to be reasonable, or even good people, this is a society and there is pretty much everything represented... not being able really to delete the only tools to prevent misbehaviour at the moment are precisely the flags... and yet again the problem is that they're used sometimes "lightly" for "personal" reasons and wars when they should be tools for such cases. Then about our personal views, everybody should just respect... but if a post is harmful to "OTHERS" well, I agree there may be at least this minimal kind of control!
that's just the thing tho Pris... there is no way to delete anything from a blockchain, its the very nature of it. It has to be immutable.
The tools for policing are not equivalent nor will they ever be to censoring, to deleting, because if they did. Then the currency of Steem would be worth 0.
If we were talking about FIAT, imagine if the people who used, lets say the EURO had the ability to change the amount of bills in circulation. To say, ohh no, this person has too much, or I don't want this person to have valid EUROS, let's invalidate this persons EUROS. That would not work at all...