I think the vast majority of users call it censorship out of ignorance and they actually think they are being censored because the frontend they use makes it seem that way.
I think the vast majority of users call it censorship out of ignorance and they actually think they are being censored because the frontend they use makes it seem that way.
If it quacks like a duck, what could it be?
If our posts are suppressed, they are censored. Information cannot be eliminated. Defining censorship as only the elimination of information renders censorship nonexistent. Since censorship definitely exists, that is not a correct definition.
All credible sources define censorship as attempted suppression of information, and greying out posts is suppression.
Right, but the ignorance of the blockchain leads people to believe that Steem is censoring them or that the downvoter is the censor. In reality, the frontend is censoring... and anyone can make a frontend. There are no permissions involved in how the data of the blockchain is organized and displayed.
Anyone who uses Steemit agrees to their censorship rules, even if they don't realize it.
Very few people are able to parse the blockchain data without using a front end provided by others. Since front ends are all prone to censorship to some degree, that effectively censors the blockchain.
My point is that it is false to claim that suppression of posts isn't censorship. Flags are censorship, since they suppress posts. Demonetization on Youtube is censorship, even if the content isn't deleted. Deletion of content on Youtube is censorship even if content remains up on Bitchute. Censorship isn't either complete or nonexistent. It's impossible to eradicate information totally, and therefore censorship is any attempt to reduce the availability of content, and that includes flags.
This means nothing to me. I've wrote several posts about the Halo Effect and how people keep projecting their past experiences falsely onto the blockchain.
The most notable thing is the Dot Com bubble. Everyone is going to be damn surprised when 90% of the open source projects in the space don't fall off the face of the Earth.
Just because the Halo Effect exists doesn't mean that's all that exists. Clearly some of our experience is valid and appropriate on the blockchain, even if some people misapply some of their experiences sometimes.
If something resembles things we have experience with, it is the only appropriate response to compare it to what we do have experience with. Pattern recognition is really all we have.