Steemit is a social networking publication that is related to the use of blockchain with a cryptocurrency called STEEM. An innovative project founded by Ned Scott and Dan Larimer, creators of Bitshares and whose whitepaper was presented in March 2016. With operations similar to Reddit, Steemit is distinguished by that by the fact that the content created is recorded forever on the blockchain, where it will remain unchanged for centuries. centuries and will not have a type of sensor. That's the idea, but something else happened recently, when platform developers had censored a group of hackers who sold information on this platform, information related to the 9/11 terrorist attack.
Steemit developers block hackers for violating social network terms and conditions. The hacker group, The Dark Overlord, has made at least five publications on the site repeat the details of their "payment scheme" to release 18,000 documents with confidential information they have stolen and that store sensitive information from terrorist attacks in the city. September 11, 2001, to the Twin Towers.
Although published information is still available on the network, hackers have been prevented from continuing to post more posts, Steem's community reaction to this fact directly, describing the action as "a violation of their own principles, censoring groups, on social networks advertised as contrary to the fact of censorship "On the other hand, users also complain that this is another example of the centralized Steem network model, and that more actions like this can be expected in the future, replicas that can be reviewed on the GitHub project.
Faced with the fact, many users wonder whether Steemit is a safe place to continue to maintain their activities and if, conversely, networks transmute what they hate most, an elitist network, centralism, and censorship, with the dire consequences that this can have to community and cryptocurrency value, STEEM. This finally opens up the possibility of making a fork that is difficult to prevent a new situation like this from happening again.
Sensors in the network, big enemies to overcome
At the beginning of the Internet, sensors were rare, and even with its explosive expansion in the world, censorship was rare. But with the explosion of social networking, censorship in networks has been triggered at a level that is clearly alarming, and in many countries there are clear laws for these cases, such as the case of Venezuela and the United States. And whether the use of social networking as a means of mass communication is a trigger for the "paranoia of control" that many governments currently have on content published on the Internet, beyond open, deviant content. .
Facing actions like this, blockchain technology presents an alternative force, which allows democratization not only access to information but also prohibits censorship of content created, something that many governments or see with good eyes and desperately search for ways to stop or control the implementation of communication spaces using this technology, a situation that is almost impossible to achieve, because the crypto community and its proximity to anarchist thought, will do everything possible to always maintain a ray of light that allows everyone to enjoy free space for actions such as censorship, self-censorship or worse, absence freedom of expression.
