This is top of the list of reasons why I liked Steem in the first place, the resistance to arbitrary censorship by centralized authorities. Without this quality, it became useless to me. As soon as Sun started deleting posts I bailed and started powering down. I would have done this even if Hive weren't available to replace it. The whole Steem blockchain now is a shell game as far as I'm concerned. If people can make some money off of Sun's scam, that's no skin off my back, but I personally wouldn't touch it with a hundred foot pole. Hive is the true successor to the original Steem, and Steem continues in name only. It's a fraud and an insult to the original vision.