Did you really just suggest posting on two block chains is the equivalent to slave owning? Really? Your analogy is faulty and is indicative of a philosophical fallacy. To begin with posting on two block chains is a victimless crime ... no wait, it's not a crime. Come on ... we are all suppose to be libertarians here ... until someone threatens our sphere of power and control. Right. You want to know what R crimes ... extortion, anti-trust, and racketeering. You can choose who you will and not upvote, but using the downvote for anything other than its intended purpose when you have a great deal of power and influence is criminal. I will mirror your words ... support tyranny at your [own] peril.
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I think he was just talking hyperbolic nonsense there. Can happen to the best of us from time to time.
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It is a crime to support Steem by being part of it's community, because Steem has become a totalitarian government. The blockchain is merely an infrastructure employed to track data by those who govern, not the government. Steem is a society, and a republic - or it was, as well as a token and a blockchain. You neglect to consider it's governance to avoid holding yourself to account for that governance, because it's slavery you're supporting.
You misapprehend what is at stake. Supporting Steem is literally supporting slavery, because tyranny equally is slavery. It is the eradication of the inherent rights we are made of just as much as we are made of our thoughts, or our physical bodies. In tyranny, just as in slavery, we are no longer sovereign human beings, but property.
I do not support tyranny in any form, and this is why I am utterly free to blacklist whom I will, because that is not forcing anyone else to do so. Your complete lack of comprehension of these principles is breathtaking.
Good luck.
Breathtaking? You flatter, you. Blacklist anyone you like, but you don't get to define what slavery is or a government. Steem is not a government. It owns no land. It does not own me. You could argue it is an internet domain(s) but you are stretching things to claim it is a country. And by your reasoning ... which is based on a faulty analogy ... anyone who lives in a country with human rights violations must move said country or be complicit and be in support of tyranny. Come on. Really? You don't think you are stretching things a little to serve your own agenda and opinion. Or maybe ... you like to stir the proverbial toilet slew. I sure hope it's the second. Cause then we would both be laughing about this.
I am not defining slavery. Slavery is as I have used it, and tyranny makes of all humanity slaves.
Steem is a government because it governs. What do you think voting for witnesses does?
It determines what code comprises the blockchain. It is the mechanism that enables human persons to interact according to established rules. It is government, and even includes mechanisms for funding policy, as all government must. If you claim holding territory is a defining characteristic of government , you underestimate the Vatican, and seem to remain at a level of understanding prior to post-feudal history. What do you think boards of directors do? Every corporation is a government. They govern.
You are a government. You govern the hell out of you every morning when you wake up. You mandate brushing your teeth. You rule you with totalitarian authority.
Sun Yuchen similarly governs Steem with absolute authority, just as you do your corpus. When you form the community of Steem, you literally become his property, creating the basis for value of Steem with your acceptance of your slavery.
If you deny you do a thing, but do it, does that mean it doesn't happen?
No. Just because you deny supporting tyranny but form the community that creates the value of Steem doesn't mean you don't literally hand over money to Sun Yuchen.
It means you're full of shit.
You know what ... I know a tyrant when I interact with one just fine.
Good day to your sir.
LOL
Were I a tyrant I could force you to agree.
Why then would I seek to explain facts to you instead?
Suffer fools gladly, as you do. May you enjoy the company you keep.