Then whatever you posted became news and you could be prosecuted and arrested for just writing a joke!

Or just swarmed by the internet lynch mobs. Remember Matt Taylor, the scientist working on the Rosetta mission? The so-called SJWs didn't care that an important scientific accomplishment had been achieved. It was more important for them to attack Mat for wearing a shirt that had attractive women on it.

Is that possible on Steemit? Maybe, but from what I've seen so far, the initial community of Steemit seems mostly stable.