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Tron to Acquire Steemit, Inc.?

@valued-customer@valued-customer (75)2454d

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For me China is the bogeyman. None of my posts would be approved by Chinese censors, and on another platform I would quickly be banned everywhere. Should Tron acquire Steemit, I cannot see how my account could continue. I have concomitantly never been more committed to pseudonymity, and in the event state actors acquire my account data here, it will be potential of less impact on me personally as a result of my enduring commitment to pseudonymity.

It is perhaps informative to consider that I have been criminally and physically attacked by covert LEA associates, and strongly negatively impacted by institutions, via cryptic means and overt as well, for decades. I have long endeavored to reveal facts pseudonymously in order to mitigate such harmful impacts on me and my family for speaking publicly regarding corruption, fraud, and other crimes across the industry of societal control

Here is the article that has sparked my interest and concern. Other than financial, what impact do you expect would result from this transfer to Tron?

Edit: in my haste to publish this, I neglected to point out that both @whatsup and @eeks published this information, for which failure I apologize. I here ping @andrarchy in order to gain clarity as to this news, which hopefully is nothing but FUD and rumor.

Comments · 12

  • @crypto.piotr(65)· 2452d

    Hello dear friend @valued-customer.

    To what extent should freedom of expression be allowed? Does it really exist?

    Social platforms such as FB, Twitter and YouTube apply censorship to the publications of their users. In fact, there are legal precedents where a tweet can be taken as evidence in a trial.

    We cannot ignore that in China there is a great restriction of freedoms, especially that of expression. Perhaps if this acquisition was completed, we could have censorship levels never seen before on steem. I hope all these are just rumors.

    It is perhaps informative to consider that I have been criminally and physically attacked by covert LEA associates, and strongly negatively impacted by institutions, via cryptic means and overt as well, for decades.

    Sorry to know this.

    All best, Piotr.

  • @arcange(79)· 2452d

    Congratulations @valued-customer! Your post was mentioned in the Steem Hit Parade in the following category:

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  • @treepi(65)· 2452d

    @tipu curate

  • @treepi(65)· 2453d

    @tipu curate

  • @informationwar(65)· 2453d

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  • @joeyarnoldvn(68)· 2453d

    But governments already have your data. They get it. Edward Snowden talked about that in his latest book that came out in 2019. Trying to hide is not possible. You cannot hide. They have been destroying our fourth amendment right for too many years in too many ways. Keep in mind that it is said that the Steemit Inc. company is separate from the Steem blockchain itself in theory. That is at least what some people say. If that is true, then it doesn't really matter who owns Steemit Inc in that they are separate from Steem itself. But of course, China and others are taking over the world. We have to always try to stop global tyrannies. When we take a break from trying to stop them, that is when they gain ground. So, of course, it seems that Drudge was possibly sold. That is bad. If Steemit Inc is sold or stolen or whatever, of course that is very bad in the wrong hands. Of course, they are trying to stop Steem and change Steem. They will not stop trying to go after Steem, Bitcoin, Minds, Ethereum, etc.

  • @sjsbikes(53)· 2454d

    Wouldn't surprise me.

    I'm getting to the point of realizing that the online world is no longer a safe place to air thoughts.

    Everything you say can and will be used against you in ways you never thought possible.

    Next step, thought crimes.

  • @stevescoins(70)· 2454d

    I've always been worried about facebook or twitter shadowbuying into Steemit

    I'm not sure how much worse that the chicom will be than the people emulating their control methods already ;>

    hopefully, you have already created a fully anon persona to continue conducting infowar from, if not, then get cracking!

  • @remlaps(66)· 2454d

    I don't know if I believe it or not, but I guess it's plausible. Not sure about impacts. Brainstorming

    Immediate

    • Tron would gain somewhere around 20-30% control over the Steem blockchain
    • Tron would gain control of Steem development
    • Steem development and marketing would have deeper pockets (assuming they're not buying it just to snag blockchain developers for Tron)
    • Witnesses - impact unknown, but Tron could install their own favorites
    • Tron would gain control of steemit.com, which is the only place that I think censorship by China is immediately relevant.
    • In the short term, users could circumvent censorship by using alternate front-ends, like steempeak or busy.

    Mid-term

    • Tron's control of witnesses and development could enable more stringent censorship by China
    • Working towards standardization of blockchains
    • Response to censorship could require a new Steem-based blockchain through use of the MIT license
    • Would Tron change delegation procedures w/ Steemit's stake, or even start curating with it directly?

    Long-term

    • Blockchains merge. TRX becomes a token on Steem or STEEM & SBDs become tokens on Tron.
    • SMTs, steem-engine tokens, and whatever tokens exist on Tron's chain all flow to the same platform.
  • @freebornangel(72)· 2454d

    Loverly,...

  • @javirid(56)· 2454d

    I don't see anything which could interest the Tron Foundation about Steemit -the corporation-. So I think this is just some fake news post. I own some TRX and I would not change my view on the native token of this smart contracts platform in case the news were real.

  • @drutter(73)· 2454d

    This is the first I'd heard of it. After reading the article, I'm not sure what your specific concerns arise from. Would Steemit be subjected to Chinese censorship if a Chinese investor bought it? I'm not aware how such legal matters work. Also, are you certain that Chinese censorship is worse than what we're currently under? I'm not. I wrote about possible shenanigans around STEEM price, saying it could be driven downward for a takeover at rock bottom prices. Perhaps we just saw that takeover? EDIT: I don't know TRON from Apple, so perhaps my ignorance on that is why I don't understand your level of concern.