the 9/11 controversy probably caused people to come but more importantly it allowed for the question "why was steemit able to censor someone? I thought steemit was uncensorable" ... which allowed users like us to educate these people by addressing their question with the following answer.
"steemit is first and largest dapp running on the steem blockchain. But steemit is NOT steem. The steem blockchain is uncensorable and anything censored on steemit can still be viewed using another dapp"
side note...kinda funny... steemit does't know that "uncensorable" is a word.... try it...if you are on steemit click reply and type in uncensorable lol you will see red squiggly line underneath indicating there is a spelling error when there clearly isn't
The garbage Steemit spellchecker doesn't know a great many words.
https://steemit.com/complaint/@edicted/steem-has-the-saddest-spell-check-of-all-time