If a user can access our website, they can access other websites. This is not an unreasonable assumption.
Filing a FOIA request and navigating to a different page are not comparable.
We intend to provide a specific type of experience for our users, and that involves encoding some of our opinions into the product. Of course, the whole thing is open source and we hope people take the code and run it on many other domains with their opinions supported.
Ultimately due to the nature of the blockchain it becomes impossible for us to censor anything, and we are going to take full advantage of that to provide strong moderation tools on steemit.com for a censorship-free, yet enjoyable reading experience.