Hi there, some counterpoints to your claims which I haven't seen answered by you or elsewhere from the $tron camp. No maliciousness intended, actually curious as I believe there is no basis to believe that TRON's involvement would be beneficial to the existence of STEEM and it's communities.

I do not support censorship

• Neither do I but how is a soft fork on Ned's previous stake censorship? It's a statement of intent to Tron that there remains something special here which they feel could be under threat and they intend to take action for preserving it.

I fully support any action tronfoundation takes in this matter, up to and including a dirrect hardfork to tron network and the elimination of all witnesses who voted for this censorship softfork.

• simply out of spite? I have no idea what Tron intends for steem or even the steemit inc domain and associated assets. Do you?

tron comes to save steemit from the founder who clearly didnt give a damn about steem or steemit and obviously wanted out.

Perhaps you are entirely correct but I think you are 1/2 correct. If Tron approached ned first and there is no indication that tron gives a damn about steem outside of its existing capital assets providing value to tron (not vice versa), then what is exactly being saved?

Tron gave steemit renewed utility, renewed visibility, and pushed out long anticipated updates only days after acquisition, and instead of receiving good faith in exchange for their good faith they received..

• what renewed utility? Only integration or utility of tron on the steem chain was thru Open Seed and splinterlands accepting $trx
• what long anticipated updates? SMTs? Communities?
• good faith can be implied by contract and enforceable by the same, but it is not to be relied upon on its own. Especially in crypto
• Totally agree about the renewed visibility but I think the actions of the steem witnesses have drawn a line in the sand that is much bolder and can work out to far greater advantage if they survive the upcoming battle.

Softfork 222 is a direct attack on Trons involvement and stake.

• sort of. It's a softfork to request that they be met at the negotiating table annd heard out. Prior to this, they reecived almost no engagement or response from Justin Sun. Communication is required to instil confidence and continued support. Not communicating signals something else (especially if you just bought out a huge chunk of the stake available on the steem blockchain)

A slap in the face to the entire tron community who have embraced this partnership and embraced the steem community

• It is precisely the absence of this from the tron community and their leader which justifies my support of this soft fork.

• the groundwork still remains. I don't see top witnesses maliciously downvoting to suit their own personal agenda or profits. And I don't think they have censored anything/one. You can talk to them and reach out with ease, they can't talk to Justin Sun or reach out to him at all.

in the best interest of the cryptocurrency community.

• so which are you upset about; steem community, tron community or cryptocurrency community? What is the cryptocurrency community? is like like an exchange where you buy, sell and swap crypto?

Tron owns Steemit inc, making steemit the property of Tron.

• steemit inc is an incorporated entity and Justin does own it. He does not own STEEM: STEEM Is a unit of cryptocurrency. I own STEEM, you own Steem...

I believe that its in the best interests of Tronfoundation to hardfork the chain and start steemit over as a tron based platform.

• that's fine, i use @steempeak and @palnet.io predominantly as my front end to interact on the steem blockchain.

Appreciate your thoughts. Thank you