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RE: Steemit and the importance of it's censorship resistance angle.. Steemit could stop intruding governments...

in #steemit9 years ago

Look, I like these sentiments, but it seems like you're missing the crucial fact: on Steem, nobody can literally erase your contributions, but anybody with deep enough pockets can downvote/flag them and there's nothing to stop them. Think of it like this: Steem has privatized censorship. The highest bidder gets to censor and promote whatever they want. I'm considering issues like this in my series on game theory in Steem. I'd love your input!

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I understand that, but its far less horrible than our current predicament.. good post though! I'll read the others soon.

Well we already have one user who created a swarm of downvote bots, so that user can downvote multiple times. So it might be on the blockchain but if its buried so deep then it wont matter.