Ok for example right.
Say Steemit becomes one of your largest forms of income. Which is possible. But you talk about politics.
Then someone with a ton of money decides they don't like what you have to say. They can load up on steem and blast your income into the ground with the goal of shutting you down forcing you off the platform.
Its entirely possible on this platform for a couple entities to completely lock it down if they really wanted to. It would cost a lot but its technically possible.
Oh, I didn't know this and thought censorship would be possible since I've found some comments which were downvoted so much that I couldn't make them visible with a Click.
Thanks for this lesson, it seems I've to learn a lot about the blockchain in future.
See the lowest comments under "beerlover". The first one is a downvotet comment which a Bot made and there's to read "reveal comment", so you just to have to click there and the comment is visible again as you've said.
By the comment below this is to read "Comments were hidden due to low ratings." I tried to click the button on the right where stands SHOW, but the comment was invisible furthermore, just the Button changed his inscription from SHOW to HIDE, that's all and that's what I've meant.
Even if Steemit would hide comments completely, there are multiple other frontends (for example the eSteem mobile app) that still show them. ESteem doesn't even hide them behind a button.
If you're referring to downvotes, that is not "censorship" and those posts are still on the blockchain and visible on many front end sites.
Being able to nuke someones money is a form of soft censorship.
The "money" is not yours until it's in your wallet. Try again.
Ok for example right.
Say Steemit becomes one of your largest forms of income. Which is possible. But you talk about politics.
Then someone with a ton of money decides they don't like what you have to say. They can load up on steem and blast your income into the ground with the goal of shutting you down forcing you off the platform.
Its entirely possible on this platform for a couple entities to completely lock it down if they really wanted to. It would cost a lot but its technically possible.
Oh, I didn't know this and thought censorship would be possible since I've found some comments which were downvoted so much that I couldn't make them visible with a Click.
Thanks for this lesson, it seems I've to learn a lot about the blockchain in future.
Please give a link to such a comment. That's IMPOSSIBLE not even Steemit.com allows to hide a comment in such a way that you can't reveal it.
Ok, here's the Link to a Posting where you see two sorts of downvotet comments, the second one is what I've talking about.
https://steemit.com/deutsch/@meins0815/wie-ernst-isses-denn
See the lowest comments under "beerlover". The first one is a downvotet comment which a Bot made and there's to read "reveal comment", so you just to have to click there and the comment is visible again as you've said.
By the comment below this is to read "Comments were hidden due to low ratings." I tried to click the button on the right where stands SHOW, but the comment was invisible furthermore, just the Button changed his inscription from SHOW to HIDE, that's all and that's what I've meant.
When you click that "show" button a new comment appears (by cleverbot), but for some reason it shows that at the very top, might be confusing.
Yes it is, but it's good to know I'm not the only one who was confused by this.
I'm glad a hard Censorship isn't possible here, because I heard it for some years and this was my main reason to come to Steemit.
Even if Steemit would hide comments completely, there are multiple other frontends (for example the eSteem mobile app) that still show them. ESteem doesn't even hide them behind a button.