From what I've read of part 1, part 2 & part 3 of Dans posts on censorship, the developers have no intention of keeping the steemit platform censorship free. It is the blockchain only that is completely transparent. If you wanted to set up your own social media platform through the use of the blockchain, then you could choose to make it a porn site, a site filled with plagiarised content or leave it completely free and riddled with bots. I would be interested to see how many people choose the noisy platform over the censored one.

In my eyes censorship is not for removing what offends us from site (although of course it can and is often used that way) it is for filtering out noise. It is difficult to find what we like when what we like is riddled with what we don't like. And I'm not talking about opinions, I'm talking about noise like gifs, memes, very long sequences of text that were supposed to draw a picture but didn't. Website filters would help with this, but last I read Dan commented that anybody else could build the tool for that so I'm not confident it's coming any time soon. Besides even with filters, bots will misuse tags for the chance to be seen.

You describe controlling your feelings as a power. I would describe it as a skill. And a powerful one if you are good at it. But some people are better than others at controlling their emotions, and some people find it impossible. We are not like the robots. Muting what we don't like is not a long time solution for 2 reasons.
1: we can't do it as quickly and efficiently as a computer can.
2: we have to consider how the platform looks to each newcomer.
If we couldn't flag material (which is to censor) for example, and instead just muted what we didn't like, then we would have a great view of what we like from our own account. But as a new user comes along when this platform is getting bigger and bigger, to use their mute to filter out the crap and find what they like will just be too much work to bother.

Caring about how you make somebody else feel is an important part of being human and I fear this age of technology and cyberspace is turning many of us into robots. But we don't like to care about the feelings of others because that makes us vulnerable to care about how they feel about us. That's why we stupidly care what a troll thinks of us. We try to reach out because we care about the troll, we hand over a piece of compassion from our hearts, and it gets crushed. The safer option is to not care and be robotic. But this is not emotional strength. It is emotional suppression.

Even our ability to upvote what we like here can be considered a form of censorship. We are voting to bring what we consider more valuable to the front window, and anything we choose not to vote on gets left at the back.

Censorship in my view is inevitable. The transparency exists only on the blockchain.