Witness System:

Dear First Amendment @firstamendment, Is a witness server owned by a particular witness?

Centralization vs Decentralization

If Tron were to create Steem accounts and get many Steem accounts to vote the Justin Sun accounts to be witnesses, then centralization would increase, assuming that is how Steem works.

How Steem Works

Last time I checked, I'm pretty sure that is how Steem works. So, it is a question of who the witnesses are. It is a question of the hardware, equipment, servers, computers, nodes, devices, etc, that witnesses own or use. Yes, remote access can be a problem.

Apple Backdoor

So, we can talk all day about backdoors. I should probably write about that more. But I really thought that Tron control over Steem would be limited to how many witnesses they had control over and things relating to that.

Democracy Republic

If Steem is mostly controlled by a consensus, by the majority, of the witnesses, and if witnesses are voted on by Steem accounts, then the vulnerability would be if Tron created too many bot accounts that would then vote for Tron controlled witnesses.

Bot Lives Matter

Just kidding about the bot lives matter. So, in conclusion, if it were to be possible, I would not allow bot accounts the ability to vote for witnesses. And I don't want to ban bots but I also want to be careful how the voting system works on Steem.