Steemit, censorship and a moderated blockchain
Recently, the steemit developers have taken over a bunch of accounts, most of which were taken over by a hacker, in order to return them to their owners.
Technically, this was done using a hardfork. Such a hardfork could also deactivate accounts, remove posts/content or freeze funds.
I was wondering, as the devs already proved this is possible and they can handle it, what would happen if officials force them to censor posts/content? Freeze funds? Are they still able to say no?
I wondered the same exact thing when they froze OpenLedger's deposits and withdrawals after the hack.
good question - who knows the answer to this one
Was there an official changelist posted anywhere?
Is there a warrant canary?
Without those two standard operating procedures, the users will never know.
As for this hardfork, its documented in the sourcecode:
https://github.com/steemit/steem/blob/7a2990efb39a2f21c3194e5f0fae9c0e48d7f7b8/libraries/chain/hardfork.d/0_9.hf
Nothing else was changed, no censorship, just these accounts.
This deserves more upvotes honestly. Voted