Hey @pussycat. I updated my perspective on the issue with my next post here:
https://steemit.com/mybad/@derekareith/porn-on-steemit-my-updated-view
I believe soft censorship is done through curating on this platform. They gave us flags to help soft censor content detrimental to the platform. With my updated view post, I hope you see how I am just trying to be transparent about how I flag content that I find detrimental. I am doing this so that discussions like this can open up and I can fine tune my approach, in the best interest of the platform.
Now that is an interesting point: curating = soft censorship
I had not looked at it that way but you are absolutely right.
The logical conclusion is that, where there is abundance of content, (soft) censorship is inevitable ...