RE: Grumpycat Wiping Out Innocent Minnows and Admits To Censoring Us! Please Help Spread The Word!
History shows us that with censorship comes loss of freedom
Except that hiding a post by means of flags, as @grumpycat does, is not censoring. The Steem blockchain is resilient to censorship and only the authors of posts can delete their own posts (within 7 days of creation). Nobody can censor on the Steem blockchain, your post is never gone unless you delete it yourself.
We should really stop throwing words such as censorship, or even comparisons with Hitler, round too loosely.
People who have ever been that unlikely to truly have been censored, and the victims of nazisms, deserve more respec that everyone crying they are being censored because their post's rewards were lowered.
Censorship is something totally different.
Luckily, you aren't being censored and we all pride ourselves operating on a censorship resilient platform like Steem.
Maybe it was insensitive to compare @grumpycat to Hitler. I don't know. The quote was fitting for what I was trying to say, and therefore I had to compare him to Hitler. My thought in writing that is that people too often, time and time again throughout history, ignore a bully until it's too late, and they are a victim themselves.
He may not be prohibiting them, but I'm sure he would if given a chance. At the very least he is suppressing the posts he deems unfit.
He is changing their rewards. Not suppressing them.
If I recall well he even doesn’t support voting below $0 (I may be wrong tho and he may not be consistent in his claims).
Even if voted below zero everything is still only one click away and not suppressed either.
While I disapprove of the fear he instilled and his added laziness to not focus on $hitposts but instead picks on everyone, I am not sure I disapprove of his fight. Bid bots are a way of gaming the pool, rewarding bid bot operators twice btw, and I honestly can not wait until the day they will not exist. But that will never happen.
I think he would be applauded if he would focus on shitposts instead, no matter how arbitrarily that would still be.
Stay strong and fight the fight for those we became collateral damage. 👊