Freedom from Censorship & The Lies

in steem •  7 years ago 

One of the main slogans of #Steemit was the so called "#freedom from censorship" but I guess that was a joke, or the words of a corrupt politician who makes a lot of promises before the election but after winning it, then he magically have a memory loss and cant remember any of his promises.

This is currently the situation here, when doing promotion for the site, so many things were promised, and one of those things is the so called "freedom from censorship" but now magically the censorship here is so damn strong

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This function called flagging is how censorship is being done, so what happened to those promises? freedom of expression, open source, decentralized social media, profit sharing with users - forget sharing of profits, if someone tries hard to make some money by posting contents, they the #flaggers would show up and flag the posts making the poster lose the money generated from the posts as well as losing their reputations.

This is so same how chinese products are being sold in the market, like when the sales man display a chinese product it looks like its the best product in the world, but by the time the customer buys the product, it dies before the person could carry the product back to his home.

After spending so much time, brain power and electricity cost, we are able to generate some contents, it suddenly is fact just few hours before the reward is about to be awarded

So yeah, whatever was promised is no longer available, oh well after all the people has a saying "promises are meant to be broken"

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Quite black thinking here. There is no central authority here that censors, this is a community and flagging allows us to avoid e.g. child porn, stupid 'i follow you, you follow me' stuff, copy-paste stuff and a zillion more things which will not help in building out a nice community. I still have to see the first flagged post that i didn't agree with, you can show me differently if you want to...

I could'nt agree more , I have been saying for days that the real value of any currency or system is the trust of it's users and its integrity . If those are absent then the system is doomed to fail , steemit will fail , it's only a matter of when.