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  • @vision2020(49)· 2325d
  • @ats-david(75)· 2326d

    Does the hive blacklist, a penalty imposed on voters for expressing their opinions, reflect a sincere and fundamental belief in the freedom of speech?

    A few things here...

    1. It's not a blacklist. It was an "exclusion" list for the initial airdrop. Subsequent airdrops can still take place to those who did not receive the initial one.

    2. Nobody was "penalized" for expressing an opinion. Some users (a very small number, in fact) were simply not rewarded with new tokens because of their actions that assisted with the centralization of the Steem blockchain. There is a difference between expressing an opinion and committing acts that can potentially and actually harm others - in this case, financially.

    3. Nobody's freedom of speech has been infringed on this chain. Clearly, you are still here, not only able to post content and express your opinions, but you are actually earning from that content and those opinions. So where have you been blacklisted and silenced?

  • @yabapmatt(72)· 2327d

    Does the hive blacklist, a penalty imposed on voters for expressing their opinions, reflect a sincere and fundamental belief in the freedom of speech?

    If by "blacklist" you mean the list of people who weren't given an airdrop of the new token, I fail to see how this has anything to do with freedom of speech. When someone creates a new blockchain and cryptocurrency token, they can give it to whoever they want however they want. You and I may not agree with their choices of who to give it to, but no one has any right to receive an airdrop, and it certainly doesn't affect freedom of speech in any way.

    Between Steem and Hive, Steem is the only one that is actually engaging in censorship of posts and transactions. That's why it's so important that Hive "wins". Even though it's not perfect and there are many things to disagree over, it generally stands for the principles of decentralization and freedom of speech while Steem is actively going against them.

  • @steemsupporter(56)· 2327d

    Hi @cmp2020, your post has been manually chosen by Hive Supporter and upvoted with 90%.

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