Fakebook censor and control everything on their site - for example they censor all references to natural health treatments and push drugs for big pharma, and it works like that for just about subject.
Steemit is not censoring stuff itself, but as things are now if mark suckerberg wanted to set up an account with a half million wallet he could censor anything he wanted - and nobody could stop him.
For some reason nobody seems to realise that on a much lower level this is already starting to happen.
The door is wide open, and flagging is just asking them to do it!
I rather steemit control it and not the general public
On an uncensored open source site, I think there should be no censorship by anyone.
Anyone is free to mute any user, but any form of censorship, for me, is against everything Steemit stands for.
Yes agree. I just don't like how most people flag what they don't like but never mute the person.
I'm concerned about this as well and agree this makes Steemit very vulnerable. I'm here, as are many Steemers precisely because it's meant to be a place where anyone can post their authentic viewpoints and information/news without being censored. They need to rethink the current flagging system or it could be the demise of steemit.