"Do you really believe that? Someone out there is creating those blockchains and Im my honest opinion - authorities will surely find ways to put pressure on them."
Depends, proof of stake is not as secure as proof of work. You can only hack the big POW blockchains by doing a 51% attack or when you would have a quantum computer smart enough to hack the encryption. Both are impossible. But in the case of steem it's not that secure, you would only have to take the witnesses their servers offline. Which wouldn't be an easy task but not impossible.
"Something that could not be done on any other social media out there. Steemit is actually the worst when it comes to censorship. Anyone with money can censor you."
I agree, it's very easy to shut someone up here on Steemit. Much easier than on Twitter for example. A solution would be to come up with a hard fork where they make it more expensive to flag people. But then how will real spam be fight? There is not really a good system right now to fight spam.
"Goverments can easily influence Steemit Inc or other companies promoting their front-ends. Do you really think it matters much if some content is on blockchain, if this content is not being displayed by any front end? I really have my doubts."
True i agree. You could say the same about exchanges btw. Governments can't take blockchains offline but they could attack the exchanges, it's the weak spot. That's why there are now decentralized exchanges. You would need something as a decentralized front end.
"Are you really feeling so safe here? It's just very fragile illusion. If Steemit will ever grow bigger and authorities will start paying more attention to this platform, then Ned and entire team will be under heavy pressure."
I think steemit is not that important anymore like they used to be. All the new inventions come from the community itself. And that's how it's supposed to be.
"Current flag system is the worst tool out there, allowing full control over displayed content on Steemit and other front-ends."
Yes it is. But what's the solution? It's difficult to find a balance. If you get rid of the system spam will rise a lot. But if you keep the system people can censorship others. What is a good system?
Dear @niel96
AWESOME COMMENT buddy.
I wonder if it's possible to create one.
Also thank you for accepting my invitation (memo) and dropping by. I appreciate your comment.
Have a great upcoming week :)
Piotr
"I wonder if it's possible to create one."
Websites are usually hosted on a single server but with a content delivery network they can cache the website when it goes offline. The problem is that a blockchain is just not as efficiënt as a centralized server. You can never get the same high speed and cost effectiveness, but they are more secure.
Right now, there are much different front ends for Steem.
If steemit goes offline we have busy.org, partiko, steempeak, ...
It's probably a better solution.