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RE: How Steem has altered my beliefs towards freedom of speech
Steem posed an interesting experiment - what a very tightly controlled anarchist society would look like. You would get to see how it pans out, but no one really gets hurt.
Steem has taught me the hard way, that this fantasy is unsustainable. It won't happen without getting ugly, not for the homo sapiens species, not in this form. Extreme anarchy and libertarian views are selfishness decorated with a masquerade (and/or delusion) of social benevolence.
I think you are spot on here about the actual happenings on Steemit, as opposed to what should have happened. I'll check back in a few days to count the "No True Scotsman" arguments in the comments 8-).
Ditto - it's so inconvenient when the dirty truth of reality gets in the way of a utopian fantasy. Biasing author rewards based on the wealth of ones "friends" or "patrons" voting for you when those rewards don't come from those users directly - well that just seems wrong to me. It just becomes a wealth circle-jerk instead of a reputation and popularity circle-jerk. I'd take the later any day since the wealthy could still promote posts directly with their own money. If you want to throw your weight around to influence the rewards pool allocation negatively or positively - well that just seems like coercion to me (not even lobbying since they don't spend any more to do it).