Hi @robertoueti, whilst the dapps reserve a right to ban accounts for violations of their terms of use, I am not sure whether it is wise for them to rely on such terms without first giving the offending party the right to be heard and judged by an independent arbiter. I see that six accounts have been banned by steemit. I don't really know the reasons for their accounts being banned and whether they have been banned after a hearing by an independent arbiter. I suspect, the answer is a "no".
As more and more dapps come on board the steem blockchain and as competition increases among them, the dapps would be forced to be more circumspect in their enforcement of their terms of use, as users are not going to passively sit by and allow the dapps to enforce their terms of use indiscriminately.
However, if these accounts have been publishing content which are criminal or disclose criminal activities by the account holders, and are used to pursue such criminal activities, then the continued publication of their content on the dapps could be construed as aiding and abetting such crimes by the witnesses, in which case, the witnesses would be justified in banning the account summarily, without the right to be heard by an independent arbiter.
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@devann,
I believe that apps have the right to exercise censorship when people meet the terms of service imposed for the use of the same. I also believe that in a while we will see that applications will have to be more "democratic" with regard to banning people, since, if they start banning simply because the stakeholders of that application did not like what was said, we will see an inactivation accounts in that application.
However, I believe that the witnesses do not have the power to block and end the X or Y account, after all, they can not simply change the blockchain with the blocks that are already recorded. If they do, it will be a shot in the foot, since they will denigrate the transparency and integrity of the blcokchain.
Of them not being accused of crime support, this is one of the things I believe we have to ask the developers to do. A network of computers that at the same time is client and server, ensuring that all people can have their content published in these decentralized networks and nobody knows where the servers are, thus ensuring the total truth freedom of expression.