Great quote by John Stuart Mill! Not sure if it applies to Steemit specifically as I don't believe there is censorship per say on Steemit, but I agree that a better distribution of power could do good to the platform, whether it happens naturally or else in the future.
Cool coincidence! I was writing a video I once made comment on your other last post and here I am finding another topic you post about, and that I had touched on, on one of the three vids I did back in the old days (the third one bieng the song ''A Trick of the Tail'' by Genesis). I used images from the movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home along with the song Don't Kill the Whale by Yes. The video I made was then used by a web site who made a list of environmental problems that had supposedly been debunked (according to them) as fear porn or something to that effect. Imagine the following song (one of my favorite by Yes) with some of the following film excerpt and you would get the vid in question:
I'm not saying it's censorship per se. I'm saying that if the platform doesn't become more democratic it won't matter...people will go elsewhere.
Ok, gotcha. We are on the same page as long as you say more democratic and not perfectly democratic (meaning one user=one vote). I still think more vests should result in more influence, but I also think the gap between the whales and the minnows is still to big as it is right now.
I think some people have jump to that flagging for downvoting (as a way to control the daily reward pool) equates to censorship conclusion on Steemit. So my reply was not necessarily pointed at you but at the larger debate raging on.
I'm no whale...I'm about a small a minnow as there is. A lot of people look at the reward disparity as a form of censorship. I'm not one. I really like this platform ans sincerely hope they fix the problem.