The funds were temporarily frozen, not stolen, because they were Steemit, Inc's ninja mined stake and their current owner had announced he was going to destroy the chain thus stealing everybody else's property by forcing everyone to choose between swapping it for some TRC10 token of unknown value and remaining on this chain slated for abandonment.
Justin Sun fired the first shot by announcing on the very same day that he acquired Steemit, Inc that he was going to move everyone over to the centrally controlled People's Republic of Tron.
Funds of a user were altered. That is stealing. That is not ok. Personally thats where i draw the line.
Frozen temporarily, not stolen. Stealing means taking away permanently.
That said, I think it was premature to do the soft fork and said so right after it was done.
I disagree. the steem of steemit were changed to something that is not steem. So that is stealing in my book
What do you mean were changed to something that wasn't steem?
I think this was as if a large customer had walked into a bank and wanted to withdraw a large sum stating that they were going to hire a demolition crew to bulldoze the entire block (which they did not own).