Applications are free to show what they want. The key is the data is open and censorship resistant. It can always be read on a block explorer in addition to many other applications.
One can always pull the data since it is not controlled by one company or party. In fact, nobody owns it.
So is it advisable to use and promote applications that do not hide content on Hive then? And avoid the censoring one?
Certain apps are going to show certain things. So it is up to the developers to decide what they show. You use the term censor when it isnt really censoring. That is removing the content.
If someone opts not to show short form, that is the choice of the app. After all, Spliterlands is a front end that doesnt show blog posts yet it does pull hive data.
Hiveblog doesnt have short form shown either.
Hive.blog allows everybody access any short form and interact with it. Making content unaccesssible is censorship though.
Edit: When steemit.com was deciding what not to show, we called that censorship too, didn't we?
Yes and it was incorrect. The information was not censored since it was on the blockchain. That is censorship resistant. People claimed it was censored when it was not. A block explorer reveals all data is there.
As for you point here, there is nothing that says an application has to show everything. You could set up an app that only shows blog posts without comments. You could opt not to tie into the image servers and show all content without picture or video.
That's true.
We should not support apps that choose to hide content though. Just as we chose not to support steemit.com.
I support InLeo since that is what I have tokens in and where I decided to focus my attention. What other applications are doing is up to them.
But you are right, people need to think about where they focus their attention and what they use instead of just blindly jumping onto something out of habit.
Well, the one restricting access to certain content is Inleo. And AI assumes that it actually is a form of censorship.