Business as usual.
Connections to Amazon, Facebook and Google.
And this: https://steemit.com/steemit/@ura-soul/just-so-we-re-clear-the-tech-manager-of-steemit-is-anti-democracy-and-pro-oligarchy-in-his-own-words

Whomever wants to do or know anything about his account needs to pay for it by surrendering a part of his own author rewards to unofficial services like busy.org, or let services like steembottracker.com and steemdb.com and steemnow.com and others mine with his computer, or both, like the case of dmania.lol was, or not do what he wanted to do.