Steem gets it biggest Celebrity yet! - Welcome Tommy Robinson to Steem

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In mid-February 2020 Justin Sun acquired the shares in Steemit Inc and proceeded centralise the blockchain under his control, improperly using Steemit's founders stake (intended for development and decentralisation of the blockchain) and tricking exchanges into initially supporting his power grab.

After extensive efforts to resolve the dispute failed, the community revolted and formed a new, fully decentralised blockchain - Hive - without the pernicious influence of Justin Sun and his minions.
Because of Open Source licensing, Hive was legally able to duplicate all the code and content on Steem.
The vast majority of the community and decentralised applications and projects moved to Hive and Hive was listed on many cryptocurrency exchanges without having to pay the normal listing fees.

On 19 May 2020, a Steem hard fork (0.23) designed to steal the Steem from 65 accounts associated with creating Hive became public.
My position on this hard fork can be found here: https://peakd.com/hf23/@brianoflondon/letter-to-exchanges-do-not-run-steem-hard-fork-23-hf-0-23-0

This was the final straw for my involvement with Steem.

I will now post exclusively on Hive at https://peakd.com/@apshamilton/posts
All my old Steem content can also be found on Hive.

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Tommy Robinson (@tommyrobinson), best selling author and extremely popular, if controversial, political activist has officially joined Steem.

You can see the link to his Steem account on his latest Youtube video below (in the description).

Notice the over 350k subscribers to his Youtube channel!

As far as I am aware, Tommy is the biggest celebrity EVER to join Steem and actively post.
He has millions of followers in the UK and around the world.

He hand delivered over 250,000 signatures to 10 Downing Street in the Soldier X campaign (to stop the persecution of British soldiers that took selfies with him).

Before his Facebook page was banned, it had more followers than the UK Labour party!

Tommy has been censored by the mainstream media and tech giants and persecuted by the UK establishment for trying to have an open discussion about the role and influence of Islam in western societies.

You may not agree with his views, but freedom and democracy require open exchange of political viewpoints.

The mass censorship of alternate voices on the right, and also the left, is anathema to a healthy society.

Steem welcomes Tommy and all the other refugees from the conformist censorship of the big tech companies and mainstream media.

I want to thank my friend @brianoflondon for bringing @tommyrobinson to Steem.
He will bring great value to the platform and hopefully cause other popular figures who have been censored to also join Steem.

Steem, as a censorship resistant and self regulating platform, is not a free for all for hate speech. That is important to me as a Jew.

It is a place where alternative viewpoints can be exchanged and debated with the respect that arises from the knowledge that there is real money involved and bad behaviour which damages the platform will be punished financially and attentionally by collective action.
But where there is no outright censorship - content is always available for direct viewing on the blockchain and there are a large number of front ends to view content, with different policies.

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