It's great to see the censorship arrogance of youtube, twitter and facebook spectacularly backfiring in their faces. Oh well their loss is our gain, as soon as word that steemit is the place to come for uncensored and unfiltered opinion and news reaches the public consciousness this wave is going to turn into a tsunami.
For me the platform represents one of the last bastions of free speech and as time moves on I can see it beome a magnet for free thinkers the world over. In a few years we may have to pinch ourselves at how lucky we were to be here during it's formative years. I sense great things for this platform and I'm proud to be a part of it. Thank you for the mention @v4vapid and I would like to offer a huge welcome to independent journalists and open minds the world over. Steem on my friends!!
That's a great way of putting it succinctly, captures exactly the atmosphere being created by the tech giants who seemed to have lost their way.
Don't be evil...
I truly hope that steemit can remain a bastion of free speech and a place for the free flow of ideas.
There's still a long way to go for Steemit to reach its full potential but this is a good sign :)
I can see this creating a snow ball effect for google/youtube, i.e in order to increase revenue from the lost ad's they will have to increase adverts for the content providers that meet their new censorship regulations. Over time this will annoy many viewers whom will also start to look for alternatives.
Equally, when you see businesses taking decisions that go against the very definitions of business practice (deliberately losing customers) then you can see that their reason for being has always been about the eventual control of information and the policing of speech. Joining steemit and meeting people like yourself has been like a breath of fresh air to me, a perfect antedote to rotting stench of msm. Thanks again my friend.