However, it was done using lines of code. It was not coded to exclude certain races or communities, but actions.
I agree that calling it an ethnic cleansing is ridiculous. The end results may be the same but that surely wasn't the intention.
That said pulling up the "code cant be racist" argument is as ludicrous as the people saying weed is a plant not a drug. This certainly could have been an ethnic cleansing attempt. A litteracy test was once used to exclude black people from voting.
Certain people were excluded from a kind of 'airdrop', in which their tokens on Steem get copy-pasted 1:1 into Hive.
I would say its more like people were specifically excluded when the witnesses decided to copy literally everything else over.
Nobody gets censored or controlled, and everybody - even Justin Sun - is still perfectly capable of signing in with an account on Hive. Everyone is also capable of getting upvotes and rewards, too.
Its pretty easy to make the argument that in this type of social media site where your investment helps earn your followers that copying over everybodies investment except the people you don't like is a form of censorship.
In short, people are upset they are not getting free money.
Pretty sure they would be less upset if their nonfree money wasn't going to tank in price over this. Also, the exclusion list has literally nothing to do with Hive.
The exclusion list is based on attacking those who weren't 100 percent onboard with freezing justins account.
These nuances are the human touch that was absent in the original code which, to be clear, was a rush job to get this whole migration done as quickly as possible. Everybody anticipated numerous problems and the announcement reflected as much. It's frankly amazing the Hive chain simply worked first time round!
The human touch argument is pretty poor as well. There was a "human touch" when the developers wrote the code as well. They made the choice to toss the blanket as widely as they did.
Its not like everything was going to collapse if this thing had to be pushed off another couple of days. Thanks to this "rush job" an entire community + has been alienated and must now prove why they are worthy of the same benefits that literally every other steemian got.
Nope. Everyone can still join Hive and express their counterviews all they want
An exclusion list based on not agreeing with a pretty controversial action is definitely a hostile to counterviews.
Steemit, on the other hand
This is whataboutism. If your goal is merely to be less hostile then steemit then go ahead and pat yourself on the back.