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RE: Blacklist?!?! Is The Steemit Platform Becoming A “Muppet Show?”
They are using their stake how they see fit. Nobody is being censored, you have the right to post, not to be heard or to earn.
I don't always agree with their actions, but I support their ability to use their stake to try to shape the platform how they wish.
By the way, this was flagged and I still saw it.
@whatsup using their steak to benefit themselves without screwing others would be fine. But what they are doing is not only abuse by moral standards, but I'd imagine by legal ones as well. This isn't people outbidding each other in the stock market. This is something entirely different.
Plus, the fact that this bot literally edits the view of other peoples posts and makes false claims about them is at best, defamation. Using defamation to harm someone else's continuity while gaining from having done that harm, is at worst, illegal.
I'm not a stocks professional and I'm not a lawyer but this sounds similar to insider trading which is illegal as all hell. Insider trading in essence, is a small group of people using insider knowledge and resources to gain unfair advantage by gaming the system.
Don't get me wrong though, from an objective perspective it is a clever scam. A beautiful fraud. I might even go so far as to say genius. But there is still a difference between criminal genius and someone using their stake as they see fit (legally).
And all of that regulation on trading and money has created a system that people are trying to avoid. Legally.
@whatsup of course it is not a leap of logic to admit that if someone has enough money, the law does not apply to them. No one of the upper ruling class of this world ever goes to jail for anything, murder included. They literally have the entire system bought and paid for.
Guilty until proven wealthy, as I like to call it.
I'm just not sure if Marky Shark is lacking concern about getting caught with his laundering scheme because he's simply just too over competent, or -- if he is one of these top 1% that runs the world so he is literally above the law.
I have no clue who Marky Shark is "in real life".