Pfff, @thoughts-in-time you really don’t understand what censorship is. I suggest you look it up in a dictionary.
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Pfff, @thoughts-in-time you really don’t understand what censorship is. I suggest you look it up in a dictionary.
I called it soft-censorship, what would you call it when your post gets hidden from view? Do you have a better terminology that you would suggest? "Flagged" is the action of marking something. However, the result of the flag, where the post becomes hidden, what would you call that, other than soft-censorship?
Oh so is it like soft-porn? Still porn, but soft?
The post or comments are collapsed but still visible. Any user who wants to check them, has a freedom to do so. It’s not even close to censorship.
The platform is filled with spammers, who use plagiarized content to profit. Don’t be surprised when couple of days later somebody will copy and paste your article to pass for their own. The only thing you can do about it is flag it to show your disagreement. There is no way to erase anything from the Steem blockchain, unlike on other platforms like Facebook, etc.
Steem is decentralized and that’s the blessing and the curse of it. I suggest you first read the white paper and learn more about the technology behind Steem before writing something so, err how to put it politely, meaningless.
Well, thanks for being polite. Yes like porn, but soft. Don't get me wrong, I think there should be a mechanism in place for spammers, and plagiarizers.
Yet, the problem with putting soft-censorship in the hands of anyone is that they tend to abuse it. They tend to simply down vote posts because they don't like the message.
Even you down voted this post because you didn't like the message. It wasn't spam, I wrote it. I sourced anything that I didn't write, or create. So with your flagging action how else am I supposed to interpret anything other than you simply didn't like what I have to say.
Do you really think Steemit needs to become like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Do you think we need that censorship-esque nonsense?
I did read parts of the white paper, what I found particularly curious was page 16 last paragraph.
It reminded me about that whole controversy that facebook was facing when Sean Parker came out to reveal the fact that they were exploiting a vulnerability in the human psyche.
I have flagged it because you don’t understand what censorship is. Trust me, I come from Russia, earlier Soviet Union. Perhaps you should start using busy.org, another interface with the blockchain. Posts and comments which were flagged don’t collapse or change colour, but left as is. Plus you simply don’t understand the technology. Please study it first before writing something like this and I will happily remove my flags.
Thanks for the tip about busy.org. For some reason I thought that busy was a Stemmit app.
Yet if it's an independent app running on the Steem blockchain that doesn't censor, then it might be my solution.
I'm not sure that I'm willing to concede that hiding posts from view, because you don't like the message is not a form of censorship.
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I think when you do an action on a platform, that causes the post to be hidden on that platform, that it in fact is a form of suppression.
It may not be as ugly, or as violent as some of the things you may have witnessed from soviet Russia, but it seems like soft-censorship to me.
If I weren't on the Steemit platform, and unable to take those extra steps to first unhide a post, and unhide the images. That's when it would move from soft-censorship, to censorship.
But hey, we live in different countries and have different ideas about things. I can respect the fact that we have different opinions, or ideas about what is what.
I live in America, and although I might ridicule someone if they had a bad idea. I'd never place a road closed sign in front of their driveway in order to prevent other people from visiting them.
Are you kidding me? That's not a reason to flag a post. Just educate the poster instead. If they don't listen and are continuing to spread misinformation then maybe it would be justified.
@eonwarped, well, the flag was given as an incentive for the poster to actually start to educate himself about the matter, before he learns about and starts to buy upvotes through bots. And becomes one of the for profit only spam posters.