I think what most of us tend to forget is that Steem on the whole is a large failure, having failed to gain any traction beyond few thousand users for years while offering nothing of 'normy' value, including the simple concept of 'signing up'.
Without this mass adoption, very few people care or know about the pedophilic content, the malicious intent, the hate crimes, the publicly accessible extreme porn and so forth that would otherwise gain a lot of attention on a platform such as YouTube.
This means that legally, Steem has a lot of slack so far, but should it ever gain traction (it won't), legal problems are going to be the very forefront of every conversation, and legislation will very quickly follow making someone somewhere responsible and likely shutting the whole thing down in an ongoing FBI battle or something similar to the decades-long battle with Torrents.
Yeah you might say its immutable but so are torrents, and yet famous sites are still getting permanently shut down, owners and users arrested and so forth.
Add a storm of dissatisfied youtubers to the mix and you have yourself a legal nightmare.
My point being, aiming for decentralized video uploading sounds nice, but at the end of the day it's not really viable at a legal standpoint and no nation is going to stand by and allow thousands of hours of child rape getting public, unfettered access, for example.
It'll only end in tears. What would be better is simply a centralized platform whose creators design a pledge or some kind of system that assures nothing will be censored - within legal boundaries. Perhaps they pay the price democratically or they are held to account in other ways. Perhaps they can become immune to the censorship desires of advertisements by having income sourced via decentralized steem-based methods rather than over-sensitive patreon overlords.
These are already in existence and run by and used by pretty prominent people, it's just hard for them to gain traction with YouTube overpowering with their VEVO bullcrap and Zoomer reaction/unboxing videos. They should be supported and worked with, rather than the futile dream of pure decentralization imo
how would you compare steem, legally, with bitcoin which governments try to ban?