We aren't talking about steemit.com but Steem. The white paper says
Freedom of speech is the foundation of all other liberties and any infringement upon freedom of speech undermines the only peaceful means of reaching consensus: discussion. Without free discussion voters cannot be fully informed, and uninformed voters are a greater threat to society than losing the right to vote. Censorship is a means of stealing votes through limiting public discourse. Steem is committed to enabling free speech and building a free society.
It also talks about the only real concern for censorship on steem via top witnesses censoring transactions and how that would be a quick way for them to lose the top 19 status. Anyway, where is this elusive community standard?
I still don't understand how a centralized, censorship ridden "platform" can compete with steem or who in their right mind would go from THE bastion of free speech to the belly of the beast.
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By paying it's users that is how.
Centralized or decentralized has nothing to do with profitable or unprofitable. Steem is unprofitable. Facebook is profitable.
I didn't think Facebook would ever be profitable but I was wrong. They know how to run a business and make a profit. It's this element which Facebook is good at which Steem is horrible at. Along with UX which Facebook is brilliant at and Steem is horrible at.
Facebook seeks to grow as much as possible. If it means letting users get paid then they'll do it. The competitors like Google has no problem letting users get paid. Twitter also is talking about integrating cryptocurrency. At this time I don't know what Jack plans to do with crypto but it shows me that Twitter has some plans.