I've seen people get censored on here. Don't get me wrong, I love this platform but I would just like to point out that at times I have seen people with 'large' interests downvote ppl into oblivion. Most of the time for good reason, but I remember seeing some downvotes on posts a long time ago that had some 'alternative' content and someone had a difference of opinion, called the poster 'retarded' and other names and downvoted them into obscurity (and of course by that I do mean (click to show content) on most frontends - but this isn't considering the effect that that is going to have on the author - likely they will self-sensor.

Another instance I saw is with I don't know if you remember a while bark @thedarkoverlord was posting up some random stuff, they said they had some 9/11 files that they were going to release if they got the big bounty that they were asking for. They never got it, never shared what they had and ended up just posting some topless photos of some celebrity - which were removed with a DMCA takedown notice, and rightfully so, A person has the right to have private pics of them taken down. I'm not sure if you could even call a DMCA takedown notice 'censorship' since it's generally only having to due with copyright material... in the end... I don't really know what I'm saying. I feel like I just come on your posts to play devils advocate which is funny because I do like steem - if I didn't I wouldn't be on here... But just thought those two things are worth pointing out if one hasn't seen them before. I still do believe steem is great for getting information out there, because it is true that if soemone has something really important that they need to get out this could be a great place. One thing that companies would almost have to keep in mind posting on here would be the accountability that would come with making promises on the blockchain - which in itself wouldn't be a bad thing.