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RE: Protecting Free Speech on Steem

You have either misunderstood or misrepresented censorship. The existence of information despite censorship efforts is demonstrable (not just on the blockchain, but in every case), so censorship is not the complete eradication of information. The definition of censorship is attempting to limit the availability of information, which your flags certainly are.

You are the most prevalent censor on Steem, save for Steemit itself, which has censored your most dedicated opposition on Steem using tools only available to it, and far more dangerous to the community of content creators than anything you could do personally. Your disagreement on matters of opinion is expressed incessantly along with your flags, yet you claim that is justified because it is disagreement regarding rewards. Disagreement regarding upvotes others make being justified reveals a mechanism intended to centralize power economically by Steemit.

I reckon that is a soft white underbelly of those whose code enshrined and effected such mechanisms, by revealing their weaknesses to those that oppose those censorship mechanisms. You, like they do, oppose others you consider a threat to you, and your own actions reveal the weapons others can use effectively to oppose you. Since those weaknesses are revealed to be the very facts you cannot withstand, that is what I and reasonable people do: post them.

It is yourself that harms you most of all when you flag, by revealing your lack of reason to YOU and inciting that cognitive dissonance that impels you to become reasonable. That cognitive dissonance you hate is your best friend. No one can harm you more than you can, and no one does. Undertaking reasonable conduct is the only mechanism that will stop that vector of self harm, and when you cease the general attempts at censorship that, frankly, define your presence on Steem, you will reveal you have learned and grown in effectiveness as a result.

That would be a good thing for your victims, and for Steem, but most of all for you.