I had the same question today! Luckily, your post came up in my search on the steemit FAQ. Is Eric Schmidt a stake holder in Steemit? Does Google have a contract with Steemit to copy all of the data posted on it (and user data?) Or is Steemit going to be just another deep state trojan horse, to herd all of the independence and freedom minded people off of the twitter gulag into one giant database convenient for bilderberg searching?

A related question is what is taking D Tube so long? Is alphabet paying off steemit to delay the full launch? (Or even to keep steemit from never getting past beta?)