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RE: A Chat With Steemit's CEO: Some Clarifications About Abuse
The links in the posts weren't destroyed, they remain on the blockchain, but the images themselves were deleted from steemit's image host, so the links are dead and won't show up any pictures. The images host isn't IPFS, it's an Amazon AWS.
I haven't looked into how IPFS works exactly, you can check their website for details about their protocol.