yes, except the promise steemit inc made 4 years ago about the ninja mined stake being used to improve the blockchain and being politically neutral was broken by justin sun, hence steem the way it was promised to us was a lie.... hive is under the hood steem, because it uses the same code except when powering up witness votes are not affected instantaneously and there is no ninjamined stake...

justin sun already started the censorship of steemit by blocking the anouncement post of hive on the steemit webpage. imagine what he would do to posts informing people about falun gong being put into concentration camps in china since 1999 and being the reason why china is able to transplant tens of thousands of "donated" organs even before it had an organ donation system...