I was surprised to learn I was on this blacklist as I'm the epitome of boring middle-aged propriety - support communities, delegate to worthy causes, including the odd curation project that puts people on a blacklist without telling them, far less having a conversation etc etc. On the other hand, I did get thrown out of the allotment society for painting my shed pink rather than the regulation brown or black so perhaps I am more of a rebel than I think 😜

More seriously, the blacklisting of accounts has an implication for people's public standing and reputation. There has been no approach to the @spinvest account to ask for a dialogue and investigate properly what Steem Power Investments is about and accounts have been placed on a blacklist without being aware of this or having any opportunity of redress.
I work with charities in England. I'm in a partnership with a UK University to bring 28 London charities with a combined wealth of £40 million each year to the Steem blockchain. In doing this, I have a public role where I I work with the Mayor's Office, London Councils - the umbrella body for the 32 local authorities in London - and the Greater London Authority as well as several other London Universities. I have never been blacklisted on Steem or anywhere else and, due to the nature of my job, I am now obliged to declare that I have been blacklisted whenever I am involved in discussions about the Steem blockchain. To say that this is not helpful is an understatement.