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RE: Is Steemit imposing a harsher form of Censorship than YouTube?
The only thing I have ever been flagged for was posting my referral link to BitConnect. I wasn't even talking about BitConnect, it was just a link at the bottom of my post. Steemit certainly has censorship issues that could potentially be far worse than what Facebook and YouTube has. All that has to happen is for a government to buy a lot of steem power and go around flagging things they don't like. At least Facebook and YouTube has to be bribed to censor posts so they are sort of the middle man. Steemit just allows anyone with enough money to do it themselves.
Good to know, good point about buying up steempower to flag. I think flagging is ok but maybe shouldn't be steem power dependent.
It's only a matter of time before companies/governments start to join steemit and push their beliefs on people and censor those who don't agree if we keep the current flagging system.
You know when you see posts about something on Facebook (like a political post) and then you get all kinds of negative comments towards the poster because they are wrong. Well on steemit, as long as the poster has enough steem power, they could just flag all the negative comments and censor them all out. Sure they are still visible if someone wants to click to open it, but it's still censorship.