That is a thoughtfull article that you wrote! I tried to explain to someone that 40 or 50 years ago it might cost close to one million dollars to buy a low en t.v. camera, lights, sound equipment, and air time...today a superior production can be done for under $100. I think as time moved foreward people started to care less and less about "fake" theatrics and the film studios that have millions of dollars invested think that people want to see fireballs.
But instead of focousing on what did happen I want to focous on what could happen. steemit is not just the latest social media platform, you tube and facebook ha financial backers,and if a guy like me did not toe the line the financial backers would put the squeeze on facebook. So facebook was to t.v. like democrats are t republicans. However in my understanding steemit is to t.v. like horses are to flowers!
I do not think that facebook would have allowed a huge conversation about neonectoids (they proably would as long as no issues were resolved) As far as I know steemit is not just a new way that things can be done, it is a changing of the guard (so to speak) I expect huge juggernats to go bankrupt once people read the unfiltered truth! So steemit is like a "controlled burn" people that manage the forest realize that every so often certain parts of the forest needs to be removed so that new growth can emerge.