According to this steemitblog post steemit.com is censoring posts about HIVE (or the real STEEM) because they don't want to give their competition a voice, which is somehow against the 'terms and conditions' of steemit.com.
The problem is you can't do this and claim to be a champion of either blockchain decentralisation or the community, who you are preventing from having fair access to information on a new decentralised blockchain.
Furthermore, if Justin censors posts about HIVE all that is likely to happen is one or more (probably all) of the following:
- People can still read the HIVE posts because they are still visible on other frontends like @steempeak, and you are going to get people posting screen shots comparing steempeak and steemit.com to show how you are censoring. Like @themarkymark did here. This very short post is possibly the most damning post ever written about @justinsunsteemit, and it's basically just a tiny handful of facts with two simple screen shots.
- This is already over twitter, not that Justin would know that because he's blocked me and everyone else who legitimately criticises him.
- People will just do cut and paste reposts of every HIVE blog posts, without the tags, or on alt accounts so it's more difficult to blacklist them. [Like this post here for example].(https://steempeak.com/hive/@emrebeyler/repost-announcing-the-launch-of-hive-blockchain).
- Someone is probably already working on a comment spam bot to drop on everyone advertising HIVE, because of the censorship.
Justin's Censorship strategy... 100 years too late?
I'm sure that in order for censorship to work you need one power with near total control over an information system.
In Orwell's 1984, born out of the horrors of what totalitarian regimes may have become, censorship, re-writing history and double-speak all worked effectively because those processes were controlled by one centralised authority, and so the vast majority of people didn't know that censorship was taking place.
However, in the 2020s, and on this blockchain, even though Justin Sun controls a large stake, and for all we bang on about him being an authoritarian centralist (which he seems to be) he simply does not have control over the information system, not over Steem and especially not over the overlapping informational systems such as twitter and the wider crypto media.
This all means that Justin's attempts at control through censorship and his attempts at double speak, they all just make him look like a sad little lost boy, a bit pathetic.
Unless there's some uber-grand chaos strategy I'm missing and this is deliberate....?
P.S. I didn't tag this with HIVE so it stands more chance of NOT being censored!
This guy continues to prove that he doesn't know a damn thing about decentralisation, this game really isn't his cup of tea
So true,
I'm reminded of a scene in Twins where Arnie says 'I abhor violence', Devito laments 'but you're so good at it'.
Just replace 'violence' with 'Centralisation' JS and you've got the same conversation JS has had with someone.
I was just about to ask who's Jason lol
That entire post by steemitblog is ridiculous, starting with the title... Not to mention their actions. I'm glad we have an option to move to Hive and far away from this maniac, JS.
He does seem to be a bit crazy doesn't he! Roll on 14.00 tomorrow!
has the snapshot been taken before the announcement to take a snapshot of accounts?
(I think not, which would be a mistake...?)
The post said the snapshot of accounts was taken then, but for the exchanges it's some other time today I think.
Ok, cheers matey.
See you on the other side.
He is such a loser and is just driving more people away from Steem. The price went up as people tried to cash in on the Hive airdrop, but will soon plummet as thousands sell their stake.
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