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RE: The Mainstream Is Helping To Make Steem A Huge Success
'Most are aware of the YouTube, Facebook, Apple, and others that banned Alex Jones. They claimed violation of terms of service but everyone knows it is because they did not like what he was saying. Whether one is for or against Alex Jones is not relevant. What needs to be relevant is that we all need to be against censorship.'
Steem isn't completely anti-censorship. If people don't like what you are saying then you can be down-voted into the ground. It won't remove your content from the blockchain but it can remove your ability to profit from Steem and destroy your reputation score. Steem doesn't remove censorship, it decentralizes it.
I like that @samuel-swinton “Steem doesn’t remove censorship, it decentralizes it.”
So yes, people can flag a post into oblivion, but it still gets posted. It will be interesting to see what happens when a flag war happens in masses.
So far flag wars have been mostly between individuals and small groups, but should there be millions of users, then that would be much more interesting.
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In history it has been referred to as 'tranny of the mob'. It is a major pitfall of a democracy. To stop this, most modern democracies have constitutions that preserve rights of the individual.
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