That completely defeats the entire purpose of this blockchain, which is to be decentralized and not have a centralized entity controlling who gets to post. I created my account anonymously because if people doxxed me in real life they could try and get me fired because they don't like my views. If I wan't some KYC bullshit I could go onto facebook/twitter.
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When I created my Steem account on 2017.05.17, the Steemit website asked me for my SMS number (and as far as I remember, it sent me a verification code), so I (and many other people) was not anonymus at the time of the account registration.
But I understand your point.
I think that this one (the abuse around the rewards) will remain one of the disadvantages of decentralisation.
Or at least I currently do not see any proper solution for it.
That is incorrect, you are anonymous at the time of account creation. They used a 3rd party service that just checked to see if a phone number was active. Steem or Hive do not have anyone's phone number linked to your account in anyway or have a way of idenfying you from that phone number. Now if you are browsing steemit.com or hive.blog without using a VPN your IP is idenfitied though.
I did not knew that they used a third party service for that.
Thank you for the correction and for detailed description about it. It is good to know that they do not have my mobile phone number.
Nowadays I am not using VPN (I used it in the past), so my IP address is indeed identified.