I was responding to you saying that "it's not unusual" which implies there are several examples at least, beyond steem. I am saying that if Steemit/Steem are operating in that way then they are the only example I know of and therefore, I am unclear as to how the experiment will play out for them in the medium term.. The uncertainty means that while Steem/Steemit can be said to be successful currently, there is a question mark over it's future success due to the potential for government interference.
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Potential for government interference is fairly large and thus the open ended term was used. The government posting to steem is not interference to me, no. I am not talking about that, I am talking about them moving to do whatever is necessary to shut down competition to their control agenda. In general, they have shown themselves to operate with no scruples at all.
I agree that there are many who would support the idea, I am just saying that there are many who would otherwise have supported the idea but would turn away due to the contractual situation.
There are many who use Facebook, for example, who consider that ability to be a requirement of a 'safe' network. A network that has no mechanism for removing predatory sex offenders, for example - will not meet the safety requirements of various groups and individuals. The list of reasons why people will not use such a service is quite long. In some senses the question can be reframed to 'why do people support government?'.
The act of registering an account is not a requirement for causing the network a problem.
We are talking about a government that has been caught illegally murdering millions of innocent people and stealing trillions of dollars to fund illegal activities of many kinds. They have no scruples at all and so would have no problem at all in launching all manner of exploits, psychological operations, social engineering attacks - whatever is necessary. Bit Torrent may still exist as a technology, but Torrent domains are totally blocked in much of Europe without the use of Tor or an equivalent service. Governments can and will use their power to compel domain registration ISPs, DNS ISPs and other ISPs to simply block domains that they want to shut down. There are ways around that, but then it just becomes an arms race and war between the groups.. This is not an environment that the majority of people are comfortable being involved in.
I already showed how torrents is not unstoppable. torrents today are a shadow of what they were initially before the main sites were controlled via government dictats. If government were REALLY bothered about shutting down torrents then they would do so - just as other governments have literally locked down their entire internet to the point of farce.
I did not say that I was for such control - I am simply highlighting that a significant percentage of the internet's users ARE for such control - that is all.
ironically, this is exactly what I was pointing to in the rest of this thread regarding the fact that those with the most money DO have 'powers that others don't have' in that they can hide posts in a way that I and the majority of others cannot do. You are somewhat contradicting yourself in the overall context of this thread.
Not at all, I did not say that at all and you didn't provide any explanation as to why you have concluded as you did here.
I do not accept that any digital system is beyond compromise.