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RE: The community stance over Tron lack of communication and its ethical implications
Steem blockchain is liberal-democratic, not anarco-capitalist
After almost 2 years here, I have exactly the impression Steem is "anarco-capitalist". Not democratic, or only like any company where votes are proportional to the capital somebody invested (shares, stocks). Here is no rule, no law, any person can be downvoted, censored and ruined any time. By others, who are more muscular, more aggressive.
Quite the opposite. These are the rules/law.
Downvote is part of the power provided by the stake and have the same weight as an upvote.
If you are saying that a downvote is an act of 'aggresion' or 'robbery' it is not true, because the rewards aren't yours until the 7 day payout. So, no one can rob you of what you don't own.
If it weren't for downvotes, we would be seeing a lot of more bad actors and spam, and STEEM would probably be worth way less, and have way less actual users.
And you can't be censored. Downvotes don't erase your post from the blockchain. It is still there. The front-ends chooses to not show posts/comments that recieved a lot of downvotes.
But you only need to click on 'reveal comment/post' to show it again.
I see. Really an incredible success story, this Steem thing. People killing each other to participate and Steem price in the Moon.
I'm too old for fairy tales.
Hi @phgnomo
In simiar way one could say that you cannot be censored via youtube. Because the fact that your video is being somehow restricted and your followers will not find it any more on their feeds - it doesn't mean that such a video is removed.
And still, majority of youtube users would say that it's a censorship.