Why is everyone so dependent on Steemit Inc?

Even now.. after @ned let us hang for weeks now, without saying a word.
And before that it wasn't better..

I thought this would be a decentralized community.
Shouldn't then the community be ruling?

Everyone is just looking at steem Inc..
But in fact, steem Inc owns a very big stake of Steem.
Ninja mined or not.. Steemit Inc has too much power over this decentralized community.
And isn't very communicative, too..

Maybe the community should fork..

I hope @ned is trying to make the community to fork and take a bigger responsibility.
Maybe he can't talk and is so uncommunicative/ inactive because he has legal issues.

There are some big players in this world, who are against freedom.