Hey Mr. Corbett!!!
I'm a fellow YouTuber!! I have a much different style of channel (Mostly Mobile Gaming, 93k subs), but it's great to see other YouTuber's here on Steemit.
Censorship is never a good thing. However, it's always going to be there in some form when we are dealing with privately/corporate owned entities. With the Steemit platform being decentralized, that is less likely to happen.
I think people have gotten comfortable with sharing everything and anything they want, that they may not think of if they should. I've gotten thousands of hate comments on my videos over the years, and there've been a bunch of them that are 'just to get my attention'.
The blockchain will help take away censorship here, however I believe there will be a 'Value Censorship' or 'Perceived Censorship' if certain controversial topics make the trending page. I think it may have already happened when large voting power 'flags' or downvotes dropped the value of a specific "introduce me" post from $15k to 5k in a matter of minutes.
It's all subjective though, and the information is still there, so it's would be classified as a 'different type' of censorship (or not at all really - not really sure).
Thanks for being here and have a great day!
-bigedude
more like self policing to prevent abuse. In any case, the content cannot be deleted.