RE: Give Back Control over Content - Or?
This feature of the blockchain is essentially a double-edged sword. On one hand it is really nice, knowing that no one has control over your content - no one can censor it, no one can delete it, and no one can claim that you copied their text as it is all transparent and easily verifiable whether or not you copied something or they just wanted to give you blame. On the other hand, ideas and people change. What a person thinks now might be the polar opposite of the thoughts he might have in a year. Especially when it comes to younger people. Leaving your thoughts on the blockchain, only to later regret that you left these comments online and can't do anything about it, might not be the best scenario. But as said earlier, it is a double-edged sword.
It is certainly a double edge sword how Steem is implemented at the moment. I would think, with some modifications, the double sword can become less edgy on one side:
With above two additions, the content creator is able to set access permissions to its own content to eg ALL, Followers, Following, Own only and all sort of other user groups when they are getting defined. This will make it easier for the content creator to publish more freely, whilst others cannot control other users content. I remember a cause of a user in our community, who was about to loose its job over something he published; The request to the community was to flag the hell out of the post to get it kinda non-visible. A work around that is not wanted imho.
These two additions will definitely help the whole Steem ecosystem out. It would certainly give content creators some level of control over their writings and gives them a chance to hide the ideas they have posted many years ago that are no longer in line with their current values.