Russia today has been blocked by cloud service providers too, and been removed from google search and a host of other platforms.
Hive was never about censorship resistance, if it was, it would have been built in a way where you would run your own node but when you're trusting 3rd parties to serve the data you trusting their views on every issue to allow you to post.
Sure they will say the data is still on chain but if the front ends controlling it block you its pretty much useless
But we're claiming this all the day long when we try to promote the platform in other social media. Maybe it's the moment to make a change to make it really censorship-resistant then?.
Ironically I can see RT news in an alternate channel of Facebook lmao.
Lol it's a nice talking point, like most blockchain products use, but they can't back it up, and because no one has to "prove it" it goes uncontested as a claim
I really thought that Hive was censorship resistant so in this sense I believed our own propaganda. It's sad to know that is just that but as you say there is a way to make it real. So let's make it, nothing is IMO more disappointing in a product than to find out that most of their virtues are just marketing.
I too believed it until I really looked at the inner workings of a chain, its a nice sentiment, the only reason things don't get removed much here is because no one bothers to submit any take down claims.
I saw how people nuked their steem accounts after the work and how they could release software hardforks to nullify certain accounts, then it pretty much proved to me that was a lie
it shouldn't cost more than $50 to hire a programmer to make a crude post viewer with a search filter. open source it, bam, censorship-resistant
No one stops Russians from creating their own frontend to Hive. Except maybe Putin who views blockchain as a threat to his total control.
If you spin up a front end, it doesn't mean the witnesses don't have the ablity to fork you off the chain and why would they want to have their own front end thats why they have a website.
Its like saying oh you got banned on facebook now make your own facebook
Then maybe some kind of filter that each front can choose wheather to show or not
There are hundreds of front ends and you can easily access the chain info without a front end.
This is NOT RT being censored on Hive. It is the @rt-international account not posting anymore. This could be for all sorts of reasons.
And why are all rewards on 0?