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RE: Flagging is not censorship

in #flags6 years ago (edited)

I appreciate your position, but I would point you to the Oxford Dictionary definition of censorship: Definition of censorship - the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc., which flagging does meet. Also...

"Every single post is still visible, not one is sub-zero, even if they were they are not censored, they are still visible."

This is your own language. Do you know why you said this? It is because you DO believe that flagging to invisibility is censorship.

I believe that censorship has a place on Steemit. It is necessary to control commercial activity that is excessively rapine, and the account you treat here is a perfect example. This is a new position for me, and I also will here acknowledge for the first time ever that I believe votebots may not be intolerable (I realize that this is the weakest way I could phrase this, but it's a big step for me!) for commercial endeavors on Steemit.

However, personal intercourse is a wholly different animal, and there, I believe, censorship has no place.

An issue here is that personal intercourse and commercial activity are somewhat inseparable on Steemit, and all social media platforms presently. This makes is difficult to reign in profiteers while not potentiating censorship of political or other personal views.

I am coming to believe that commercial and personal intercourse on Steemit should be clearly demarcated, perhaps even fueled by separate rewards pools. What do you think?

I hope you find the time and desire to reply, as I feel you are sincere as hell in your statements and hard work that you have put in to Steemit, more than almost anyone I know. It's easy to feel stuck by custom, but sunk costs aren't a good reason to keep sinking costs, so that's not a good reason to refrain from carefully considering one's position.

I have confidence that you will eventually discover that there are better means of growing Steemit and rewarding people than are currently common on the platform, and that you will remain determined to do the right thing, whatever you feel that may be.

Thanks!

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