Censorship, Smensorship.

this is to steemit in general.

there is obviously more than this but,
a beginning would be the disappearance of one of two things.

the ability to destroy someone else's ability to contribute value and content
and obscure their content into ignominy

OR the power disparity as based in any way in anything other than
curation accuracy and quality, with a more public review.

i'm still missing many pieces to this puzzle but this seems to be a particularly shiny one.

the flag clearly functions differently than some believe.
while it may be technically less than censorship,
it is still a major effect on the visibility of content.
if this is done because of a disagreement on style or attitude it is wrong.
if someone wants to mute someone, mute them,
if someone wants to not upvote someone, don't.
flagging has the more profound effect of
obstructing the visibility of the content from others.

i don't want you or anyone choosing for me or
obscuring my ability to see the truths in the world,
especially for what someone else perceives and experiences as negativity.

i see many people trying to get away with
promoting the idea that flagging
contains no degree at all of an attempt to conceal, hide, veil, or withhold,
and belittling any who do not take the most narrow definition of censorship.
this is a deceptive attempt to control of itself.
do we need to all be lawyers to know
when someone is trying to hide something because it doesn't make them happy?
if you are ashamed of humanity, why are you here?
every voice should be able to be heard,
even if only to serve as an example of what not to do.
the misuse of the concept of bullying
to bully those with which one does not agree, into silence, is rampant.

the spirit or the letter, these are the differences between liberty and dogma.
is dogmatic freedom really freedom?
imposed by the letter and not expressed by the individual.

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