RE: Updated Steemit.com Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
"These people were not prosecuted because of simply raising their voice but because of seriously threatening others."
You are incorrect. The claim is that these people's opinions were 'threatening others', but if you spend even a few minutes seriously investigating the application of laws that infringe on free speech, you will quickly learn such claims are frequently false.
Previously you asked @truthforce if his intention was to stretch the law. That seems to be intended to encourage compliance with laws that prevent dissent.
I will say that my purpose in coming to Steemit was to flee the censorship and propaganda impairing other platforms. I intend to speak my mind freely, and if the law seeks to preclude me from doing that, then I will not merely stretch the law, I will defy it.
I am here because my intention is not to create drama by using my speech in venues that seek to suppress it, but to speak freely. Were I intent on creating drama, I would seek to do so on the most censored and propagandized platforms.
Recently I read content in National Geographic that specified that 1.1 million people were victims of the Holocaust. Not long ago (less than two decades) private researchers that so disagreed with the 6 million deaths propaganda claimed were jailed for nothing more than that.
Whether or not Steemit is going to contribute to prosecution efforts by oppressive regimes, particularly including Germany, England, and other EU countries, is literally existentially important to me, and many other people that resist simply being obedient to terrorist threats.
Thanks for your detailed reply @valued-customer!
I should comment more often on @steemitblog's posts - it allowes me to connect with people I probably wouldn't get in touch with otherwise...:-)
Yet, I think your comment is a bit off topic, even though it's interesting for me to see how many Americans believe that Europeans live in oppressive regimes. I'm German living in Spain and have never ever felt being oppressed in my whole live - it's rather the complete opposite. Probably it's the media in the US that's promoting such a false image...? I have no idea. It's impressive.
But again... we're loosing the point here.
According to your profile description you're a scientist. As far as I know there is nothing in our universe that cannot be explained by the natural science. Why would a person like you fear some terms of services from a website? Sorry for being cheeky but I have to ask you that: Aren't you on a different level? :-)
I mean, what's your point?
Just as a reminder: The parent of this thread is the change of Steemit Inc's Terms of Services.
Again, I'm stoked to have all these great conversations over here that are really mind-blowing in many ways...
Thanks for your time,
Marly -
When a member of a social group does not dissent, the burden of oppression need not be brought to bear.
I have lived in Europe, as well as in many different jurisidictions of the US. I am not speaking of rumors, and did not recommend you weigh my comments as the source of your considerations.
I have been physically attacked, tortured, and kept as a slave by government. My life has been threatened multiple times, most often by thugs representing government. I do not generally advertise this fact, but do here to provide context for why the Steemit ToS isn't merely words, but may well be a matter of life and death.
Should you discover some crime ongoing you find it necessary to oppose publicly, it may be your life that is at stake. My comments urging you to research censorship aren't just philosophical, but hope that you might gain perspective that can not only protect your life and freedom, but those who are necessary to the free exercise of your own beliefs - and who pay the price in blood and treasure for their dissent.
You may not recognize that your assent to taxation is an artifact of your indoctrination by government. You may be able to understand that people who do not wish to fund the murder of brown people elsewhere in the world must object to their wealth being taken from them for that purpose.
I suspect you may not have considered that, given the tenor of your replies. I do hope that free people who are suffering harm your wealth is paying to commit through taxation might at least gain the benefit of you realizing how you are being used to commit that harm.
When you see children withered from white phosphorus your taxes have paid to attack them with, you have a choice. Germany does fund such harm.
When the German government jails people who would reveal such information, claiming they are 'racist', I believe you are harmed, because you are prevented from acting to protect children Germany is taking your money to kill by torturing them to death.
This is why the Steemit ToS matters to me. I hope more people decide it matters to them, too.
It's hard to have a conversation with someone who apparently lives in a completely different world... still I appreciated your time.
All the best to you @valued-customer!
It is impossible to have a conversation when one party refuses to consider the words of the other. Only ignorance can come to those that will not think outside their box. I can think of nothing more sad than being confined in such a box, unable to conceive of more.
May you know peace.
I considered your words, but they're still off topic which is why I refuse to go ahead with the conversation. That's all.
Always. I'm a surfer in case you didn't know...:-)