You seem to be mistaking Steem with Steemit. Steem is the blockchain, nothing is hidden there. But sure, you can gray out a post on Steemit if you like. It’s still there though.
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I am not mistaking anything. The Top Witnesses can choose to allow new users to be harassed, insulted, bullied and threatened for their opinions... or they can prevent that from happening.
Since the Top Witnesses are letting it all slide, including some death threats, then the problem is with the Steem Blockchain itself. Changing the frontend is absolutely meaningless.
Changing front end is actually very reasonable. You can’t flag in Partiko and posts hidden via flags on Steemit are very much visible. Your issue seems to be with Steemit rather than Steem.
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How does that help changing the climate of terror that most Steemians live under? Most people in here live in a constant fear of "saying anything wrong" because they might get their accounts destroyed in 5 minutes. You know that as well as I do.
I don’t fear flags at all. But then I don’t typically write about anything groundbreaking or controversial either.
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That's exactly the point. As you can see, because of those flags the Steem Network has become a blog with only trivial or entertaining content: photos, art, music, food reviews, travel blogs and so on.
Political Content is hardly nonexistent.
In that case, what's the point of advertising this as a Censorship Resistant Social Network?
Is anyone really worried that a photo of a hamburger will be censored by Facebook, Twitter and the like? Really?
Is anyone preoccupied that Facebook or Google will kick them out for showing a video of the birds singing in a tree?
Selling this as a Censorship Resistant Social Network is the Ultimate Lie. We're light years away from being that. Even Facebook is ahead of us, in that matter.
And I'll tell you more. I went through my Witnesses List recently, I've checked who were supporting the Trolls and the Bullies, either directly or indirectly, and removed my votes from them.
I can see @trinkcowski's point, and have observed and taken a look at some of the accounts mentioned. I think that the dApps are shifting the focus of STEEM as a blockchain. Those that came and have been around for a while and focused on Steemit and blogging mainly can experience the issues refered to above. I do think that the prospects for the chain are quite different from the prospects for Steemit as a front end, and the traditional "free speach blogging platform" that many came here for.
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