I am new to public writing and social media and decided to stay away from facebook, youtube and twitter because of this. However, I am also disappointed in steemit as I have experienced how one person with steempower can effectively censor me, grey out my articles and lower my reputation. The person in question admitted that they did not even read my articles! but as he is a Muslim he flagged all articles with the word Islam in them. So, where to go to write publicly where free speech actually exists? People wanting to shut certain people up seem to have the power and opportunity to do it everywhere.