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RE: STEEM: Do We Really Stand For Freedom Of Speech??? Advertising Ban or Censorship???
There’s already quite a bit of advertising here. Lots of people have affiliate links, I’ve seen people touting silver for sale, etc.
And The Steemit FAQ says the site is censorship-resistant, not censorship-free.
We like to say we are open and accepting of all kinds of speech
Not always. I will flag hate-speech in a heartbeat. They’ll scream censorship. TFB.
And that is your right...your votes are yours to do with as you wish.
Of course, what is hate speech? Isnt that something that society has taken too far in many instances?
Today, if someone gets offended by something another says, it often is described as hate speech.
Taken to the extreme, isnt calling Trump or Schumer idiots, morons, pieces of garbage hate, especially since all those attacks are based upon a disagreement with one's political flavor?
As always, where is the line.
And yes there is advertising by individuals already, and perhaps companies..is that something that should continue.
I don’t flag simply because they’re on the other side of the aisle.
But there’s been overt Naziism, Holocaust denial, and such posted at Steemit. That’s the kind of thing that I’ll flag.
Advertising per se doesn’t bother me.
But I’d draw the line at pop-up ads.
I understand what you are saying....I can see that and respect the right of one to draw the line wherever he or she feels like.
I had some who flagged on moral grounds when I was simply the messenger...thinking of an announcement with Vice....some might not like porn yet a few on here want to flag that...even an announcement.
Far too many take not liking something and categorize it in another manner (not making that statement aimed at you, just a general one).
You can flag what you want, it's everyone's free choice to flag. I'll never flag a post. People are entitled to their opinion and I'd rather know what everyone really thinks and be able to address it than have them hide their opinions out of fear. You can't change someone's mind if you don't know what they're thinking.
And I think an advertising ban is stupid, like you've said there's already plenty of self-selling and shilling on the platform, why not ban all of that. Oh, then there'd be no point for over half the large posters to use steemit, that's why.
Yeah but at the end of the day, a single whale, or a small group of whales, can essentially take down any new voice they don't like.
STEEM is inflationary too, which means it won't be much harder to get in the future as it will now, right? So OG's don't nessecarily have more power than, let's say if the russian government decides to fuck with what's posted on here.
I don't know, maybe I'm missing something. But this actually sounds more messed up than having a single company in decide what is and isn't posted...
Inflation is actually going down by half a percent every year until it reaches half a percent a year. Basically everyone had gobs of steem from the shadowmining and a period of high inflation for a while there then if you got in late... too bad.