The Steem blockchain is highly resistant to censorship, but please allow me to lay some common knowledge upon you...
Images on the Steem blockchain are not stored on the blockchain, just the links to the images are.
This means that your posts could theoretically be censored by attacking the servers that host your images, especially if your posts are comprised primarily of images like mine.
But what if you have an image so significant to the fate of mankind that it simply must be seen by all?
What if you accidently walked into a secret meeting of global super elites plotting the next Super Shemitah and you took a photo of their gathering?
Surely they would exert the full power of the world to ensure that image was never seen, so what do you do?
The simple answer is to convert the image to Base64 and include the image as text in your post. The only catch is that it can't be huge because there is a 100 KB post limit.
I have just such an image related to "pizza" (I love pizza!) . In a matter of seconds I converted the image to Base64 using this web service. Now anyone wishing to view the image can simply copy the data below and use a decoder like this one to view the image.
The super elites might have me assassinated, but at least the image lives on!
It has been nice knowing you all 😵
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That's awesome! Thanks for sharing :)
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Thanks for the comment @timcliff.
I had the idea a long time ago and I made a post about it related to illegal content.
What if someone did this with child pornography?
I just wonder what the repercussions would be.
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It's an interesting question. Steemit could block it from showing up on the website, but it would still be there on the blockchain.
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Exactly. I found it to be an interesting question because there is not really a good answer.
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Check out https://steemit.com/freespeech/@woocharlie/the-time-is-now-we-must-shift-to-decentralized-uncensorable-platforms
This: https://lockedpost.com in particular (Locked Post will offer image embeds soon and extended character limit to 900+ - https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1504289/7306802)
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You could include a hash of the picture along with multiple alternative links (or an interplanetary file system link). That way the image can be verified for authenticity and you have redundancy on the storage of the actual file, without having to bloat the blockchain each time you want to associate an arbitrarily large file with a post.
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But there is no time for that! They are coming for you right now...

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I bet the cache can be increased in the future, as steem blockchain scaling is sorted out. Then we could even have videos on the blockchain.
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Yes I think so.
And welcome to Steemit @estonia!
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That is one long-ass code.
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Took me a second to scroll to your comment.
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Took me a bit longer to scroll to yours. Haha
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Ideally it should be possible to display data:images inline with code along the lines of below, but it doesn't seem to work. When I tried it, I got a broken-image icon in the preview and an error message when I tried to post anyway.
< img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAAFCAYAAACNbyblAAAAHElEQVQI12P4//8/w38GIAXDIBKE0DHxgljNBAAO9TXL0Y4OHwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" />
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Awesome idea!
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