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     5 years ago 

    While Steem may be a casualty of this war on freedom, it is a valuable warning of our vulnerability to censorship.

    Please see my reply to the OP, which I have copy/pasted to several posts on this event to broaden it's reach to relevant parties.

    Our lives themselves depend on free speech. Our wallets are inconsequential in comparison, and information regarding a possibly life-threatening pandemic is demonstrably being censored, putting our lives and our families lives at existential risk.

    I am strongly urging action to rectify this problem at it's base, not at the blockchain level, which does not matter to our lives.

    We are either free, or we are assets.

    Without free speech, we aren't free.

    Thanks!

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     5 years ago 

    The witnesses voting was pretty much a joke for the last 3 years as it has been in the last 12 hours. Just because there were a handful of other chose ones replaced by sock puppet accounts isn't that big of a difference to be honest with you.
    Most of us got little to no support here regardless. What is the difference?

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     5 years ago 

    True, nobody is denying that #Steem governance has been a clusterfuck and dominated by large stake holders.

    There's a big difference and that's called contribution to the ecosystem. Devs, content creators and witnesses working to try and improve the chain, as flawed as it was.

    The new witnesses are all proxies of a single actor thanks to centralized exchange tokens. To me this is not the same thing at all.

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     5 years ago (edited)

    True I will give you that because there were witnesses trying to contribute but a lot of us fell on the outs and really were called cry babies essentially by those in power who were mainly there because @freedom put them there and they were voting for each other. So the power moves that were made were a lot slower or less obvious than this.

    I don't agree with the way this went down but in Justin's defense if you bought a Lambo and suddenly a crack baby was trying to jack the wheels would you hesitate to hit them upside the head with a tire iron ?

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       5 years ago (edited)

      Good u all better sell and leave!! See you all later!

      Now you all know howe it feels to be overpowered by someone with more sp than you like I have had to deal with here over the years getting constantly flagged for all my rewards by the" big good witnesses!!"

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