It is sad to see this happen, because the number 1 reason for steem to exists is being uncensorable.

Of course the account still runs on the chain, but removing it from the biggest front-end is a blow to free speech. I think it shows that we need to move to different front-ends.

I hope this will not affect any of the steem-operated api's and nodes. That would cause a mess.

I also wonder if steemit was pressured to act? This does seem very very strange.