Take a peek at these posts... yes all censored into oblivion by Bernie Sanders and Randowhale.
This one points out the widespread use of Randowhale's censorship which is bring Steemit into disrepute and breaks the spirit of the 1st Amendment to the USA constitution. Censored.
1- https://steemit.com/steemit/@tarquinmaine/is-bernie-sanders-using-the-steemit-platform-to-breech-the-1st-amendment-of-the-american-constitution
This is a post on how the stats present by B.S. accusing Haejin were inaccurate. Censored.
2- https://steemit.com/steemit/@tarquinmaine/it-seems-false-accusations-or-misrepresentations-have-caused-a-steemit-civil-war
This post details ho Bernie Sanders aka Randowhale runs 60 fake accounts on Steemit run by bots to further his ends.
3- https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@tarquinmaine/60-steemit-accounts-run-by-one-person-bots-this-whale-doesn-t-want-you-to-know-so-has-censored-this-post
And this is a short story about the negative use of downvoting... yes, censored and flagged into oblivion!
4- https://steemit.com/writing/@tarquinmaine/a-short-story-the-steemit-christmas-carol
Steemit seems to have become a platform which does not work on the merit of posts - where newbies (however great the content) can't get a foot on the ladder - where success becomes a matter of who pays the upvoting bots the most. Is this now worse than the mainstream we tried to leave? Worse than you tube? Worse than adwords and google? Worse than the paid press releases that dominate our press with fake bought news?
Shame.
This is a big problem created by a limited distribution of the coins of a project, especially for Proof of Work based project (the early adopters take risk and get rewarded, but on the other hand get a disproportionate amount of power compared to newcomers).
This is probably why Dan Larimer made sure that the next iteration of of PoS (Delegated Proof of Stake, via EOS) would have a widest and freely traded token distribution, lasting a whole year.
It will be a lot harder for whales to crush smaller/newer players within the EOS ecosystem. I can't wait for a distributed social media plaform to run on EOS as Whales are undermining Steemit.