I dunno about that. Get down vote by whales and it affects how post looks. Images don’t show up without going through manually. It will appear but be muted and unattractive for users not familiar with someone to click further to open. Plus is u one you’ll be crushed by while it’s pushing self censorship. I remember early 2021 some didn’t like I was speaking on the shot. I saw newer accounts criticizing Ukraine Gov and they were zeroed out. But generally it’s not an issue. But if SHTF and we need to discuss they might crush us. It’s still better than rest 💯
Edit - Example of this ⬇️
If it gets outrageously bad, I'm confident that someone will build a new front-end which disregards "low ratings" and displays all content, uncensored. The raw blockchain data cannot be censored or removed. Some might say this destroys the "community curation" system, but if the community isn't really community, but some high-powered whale accounts, then something would have to be (and I believe will be) done. It just hasn't gotten bad enough... yet.
Yes, it can. A hardfork can delete the whole blockchain. Remember Steem.
Thankfully a hardfork doesn't delete anything, but duplicates it. All content from Steemit (from before the fork) is still there and also exists here on HIVE. Now if the entire internet goes down, that's another (bigger) story.
You're right, at least in part. The chain we're on, however, is the result of censoring unacceptable data and events, as well as much else that has been lamentably lost. A Carrington event is even out of our control, and makes our attempts at data security fallible.
That has already been done @ironshield. Front end is called ecency.com:
https://ecency.com/moscow/@rt-international/deadly-moscow-terrorist-attack-what-s-known-so-far
I suppose you are correct, ecency already displays "low ratings" content without much interference or shaming.