To me this has become a bit like comparing Donald Trump to basically anyone else sort of thing.

For someone who doesn't like Trump, it seems like a false equivalent when people compare his actions to that of others. But to people who support him, doing 'evil' deeds is easily explained away by simply stating, "X person did that too'.

It doesn't seem to matter what the context is. It's like if you stole money from me, then a few weeks later you moved away and released my money; then I retaliated and stole money from you and 10 of your friends - Then put tape over their mouths so that they couldn't complain (And never released the money).

This whole thing has been a mess, though. No one is innocent here but it would seem to me that Steemit is measurably worse.

I think for me, moving forward it's easy to trust that the Hive crew would never have any reason to temporarily lock anyone's stake again, and they certainly will never censor anyone. The odds that Steemit will continue to censor is 100%, and the odds they will lock up more funds are pretty friggin high.

The biggest thing to remember here is that Justin has his money back. The millions of dollars worth of Steem that were stolen from people like @blocktrades are still locked up. I spent over $100,000 of my own money buying steem in the beginning. Of course it's only worth a mere fraction of that now, but the idea of it being taken from me is terrifying!

As an invested shareholder in Steem, everyone with a large stake had/has the right to speak their mind and control their accounts. People are getting censored every single day here. Even Steemchiller who is frankly suffering from stockholm syndrome or something. They censored his post and he still sings their praises.