Thanks for your reply, I understand your point, but I have to say that I disagree.
First of all:
When someone creates a new blockchain and cryptocurrency token, they can give it to whoever they want however they want.
I would agree with you if the currency were not (at least in part) a representation of the users' interactions with the blockchain. The stake is a reward for the users' interaction with the blockchain (by writing posts and curating). They copied the content, but voided the associated transactions.
Here is the definition of blockchain from an article by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhan on the Harvard Business Review:
blockchain is an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way.
At least some of the transactions on this "blockchain" (author and curation rewards) cannot be verified and are not permanent, thanks to the exclusion list.
For example, what happened to these rewards?
Censorship
I would argue that this exclusion is also censorship for three reasons.
Many accounts don't have the resource credits to post or interact with the Hive blockchain.
The accounts lost their legitimately acquired stake which was their "voice" in voting for how the blockchain should be governed.
The value of the copied posts is no longer acknowledged by the blockchain, making such posts worthless (on Hive) to the users who wrote them.
it (Hive) generally stands for the principles of decentralization and freedom of speech while Steem is actively going against them.
I would again quote Confucius:
The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.
In my view, the actions of Hive were a form of active censorship, and therefore the blockchain cannot claim to be superior.
I do not deny that there is censorship on Steem, but I hope that over time it will end. I will say that I am much more directly affected by the censorship on Hive (and therefore much more off put by it). Obviously, I don't condone it on Steem either.
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