When you say the person whose work was copied should go after the people who copied it, how else do you expect that to happen if not through the courts/government?
Lets say someone comes along and decides to copy a post from @richard78624 word for word, repost it as their own and it gets $100 dollars in upvotes because of course it was a quality post to begin with. What you are saying is that you should go to court and have the court tell that plagiarizer he needs to take that post down and compensate you for stealing your material.
How is that not involving the courts?
I see it differently then you. I see the courts as saying my work was being used by someone else and I should be compensated and that work deleted. It is not policing what can go on STEEMIT it is only preventing copyrighted material that the person who has the copyright does not want there. I think that is a big difference form policing what is on STEEMIT as you first stated.
But you are saying you want a court to be able to tell a person on steemit to take a post down. I agree plagiarized posts should be taken down, I just feel that the community doing it on its own is better than going through the court system.
There we disagree to many times the community moves to far right or to far left. When this happens one type of post is removed and the other type remains. I like my way better.
Well nothing wrong with some friendly disagreement, everyone is entitled to their opinion :)