RE: Open Letter to @ned and all Steemians - Stop the wars and the abuse of steem power, we are only damaging Steemit!

You cannot call it censorship genius because not one BYTE has been altered, the content is the same as it was posted. To censor something the ability to alter content is required. If you cannot change the content then you fail at "censoring", furthermore since nobody can stop someone from posting or speaking their mind when and where they want it's not suppressive to flag the content and make it by default replaced with a clearly visible and intriguing button that says "REVEAL HIDDEN POSTS". The point about censorship is that regulations over the blockchain would indeed be CENSORSHIP, and they would be trespassing on the freedom of expression, which ties in directly to what I was telling the author of this post: flagging is nothing more than someone's opinion on your content. You cannot silence anyone with CURATION. Hence that is why calling Curation TERRORIZING is so ridiculous, and then to equate it to Censorship when it has none of the elements of censorship (least a centralized position of power that "censors") is a stretch. If you bring those arguments before a judge you better realize that he might even side with you but he will tell you straight up that it doesn't matter because you cannot enforce YOUR OPINION on other people, which is essentially what being entitled to no negative opinions in a public forum is nonsense and contrary to the very basic principles of freedom of expression.

All content on Steemit is highly censored and centralized since the few actual users who own majority of the supply get to decide which posts make it to the front page and which posts get higher payouts. Accounts are easy to create and majority of the top accounts are most likely controlled by a small group of people making Steemit highly susceptible to sybil attacks. Simply put, for any content to make it to the front page, it is subject to the approval of the developer and his ‘friends’…

Are you an influential or well-known public figure? The developer and his ‘friends’ will give you a nice ‘payout’ so you feel good and start promoting their shady platform to the public. The number of people being lured in through this method is alarming and disappointing. Post something that the majority stakeholders don’t like and your post will never see the light of day despite being well-received by many users.

https://decentralize.today/the-ugly-truth-behind-steemit-1a525f5e156

Censorship comes in many forms, intimidation is one of them. The material may stay on a page but the damage is done through ruining people's reputations and flagging their accounts to a loss.