I get what you mean about the data going bye-bye, but you're not using the word censorship correctly. It's not censorship.
the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.
Censorship is the suppression of free speech, public communication or other information which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by governments, media outlets, authorities or other groups or institutions.
What happened to Ben Swann fits with Censorship. Posts on Pizzagate... 48 hours later video is taken down, soon followed by pretty much all of his online presence, cancelling of an ISIS related project he had been working on that had been crowdsourced (he returned the funds). He made cryptic messages that seem to reference Sun Tzu and thus by implication the Art of War and "Trust Me" so something may still be in the works...
but he has effectively been censored. If it turns out he voluntarily and of his own free will did this, that is another thing.
Yet that does not change my contention. Material can be censored on steemit now simply due to our reliance on outside sources for some forms of media. It would be no easy task, but if we could eliminate that loophole then it would be resistant.
My bad, I wasn't specific enough. If an image hosting sits goes down, is what I meant. It's not censorship in that way when things go down. Yes, true for Ben Swan, and other youtubers who have had their videos taken down and their accounts as well, and that is because of censorship. Sorry for not being specific enough.
Correct if the site goes down due to going out of business, etc I agree with you that is not censorship at all.
Though distributing the data across the blockchain could potentially even help from those eventualities too... I hadn't even considered that upside as well.
Yeah, an encrypted one. But companies make lots of backups, and send them to like Iron Mountain. The blockchain would be huge for nothing.
True.
Multi-chain connectivity yeah, I would say to create chains or side chains for specific media-types: text, image, video, audio, whatever else.
You did create a new chain of thought for me though and potentially a big business opportunity if people wished to pursue it.
Disaster Recovery aka DR
Is a big buzzword and requirement for many businesses now.
The blockchain would be a very resilient method of implementing a lot of DR services.
Side chains would likely be the way to go... with other connectivity. For video requires more storage and bandwidth, but they likely would be not created near as fast as the text blocks.
So have the main block your text block, with links to needed side chains as appropriate. Then you could potentially adjust thru put requirements to match on a chain by chain basis.