If I post something illegal, who bans me? Surely someone must have some sort of content control on this website. Right? If so, how do we know those content controllers won't also become censorers?
Secondly, who is the one controlling all the algorithms and coding for the website? Surely they can also become censorers. How do we stop that from happening? Unless the code is somehow closed already? Then there's no improvement?
Someone has to have control over something right? How does the platform operate otherwise I wouldn't understand. Please someone let me know. Thank you
While it's impossible to be banned from the blockchain, individual interfaces might choose to hide your content. There are multiple interfaces to the Steem blockchain however, such as Steemit, SteemPeak (I'm using SteemPeak right now actually), and Busy. Even if an individual interface censors content (which some have done in the past, due to legal reasons), other interfaces will still show the content.
Same for the coding of the website: each interface has it's own coding. Steemit is coded mostly by Steemit Inc., SteemPeak is coded by the SteemPeak team, and Busy is coded by volunteers mostly.
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Improvement of the code have to be voted by a group of 21 witnesses; Each steemit member vote for witnesses.
In the next hard fork , HF21, members will have the ability to down vote post they dislike. But your content will still be available.
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