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RE: Is Dlive just another corporate acquisition?
A critique I have for your statement is that Steemit Inc. really does own enough STEEM to effectively "own" it in the sense of governance. If they don't want someone to be a witness or they do want someone to be a witness they have the voting influence to decide.
Another example that can be used is Steemit Inc.'s delegation to Steemcleaners. In a truly decentralized atmosphere, you would not have a "blacklist" of people that a massively powerful account could punish for behavior they dislike. If Steem were completely decentralized, including token distribution, it would mean that individuals could downvote you or put you on their own blacklists but not an organized collective such as Steemcleaners.
They have about 60-70 million SP, which is massive of course, but technically could be offset by the community. And, they would also know that if they did that, the chain would never recover.
As for Steemcleaners, they have stake and can use it, but Steemcleaners does not stop anyone from posting at all.. Downvoting and blacklisting has no effect on whether someone can post their content. And, there are organized collectives that do similar with downvotingand policing that aren't Steemit Inc based. steemflagrewards is one of them.