A little background, we are new to the Steemit community, but we can recognize bullshit when we see it.
We recently got into a difference of opinion when getting called out a few posts that were not properly attributed.
Admittedly, this whole situation was blown out of proportion due to the fork not allowing us to update posts for attribution. That aside...we thought shedding light on something was important.
The treatment we encountered for something that should normally require a simple correction, was unsatisfactory.
What was discovered by myself was that @Steemcleaners, like many policing authorities, take their power to abusive levels.
One particular post here and the response to it was very upsetting: https://steemit.com/photography/@fitbusinessman/peach---2018-09-20-15-53-28
When we posted this it was a curation from our Instagram account that many people loved. It's hard to identify a bum, we could find no attribution.
What shocked us was where @Steemcleaners found as the location of the original image...on Onlyfans.com, as paid member content? To my surprise...with an open admission:
Let me get this straight @Steemcleaners. You are using an image searching bot, to illegally access paid members-only content behind a payment gateway on this account: https://onlyfans.com/dariashy, to tell us that we didn't give proper attribution to the model in one of our posts?
How the hell would we be able to search that content to give the model proper attribution?
Additionally, how exactly are you doing this? I asked for access to such a tool, but they did not mention that it was available. This would help us to give the model + photographer proper attribution!
No, @Steemcleaners is more comfortable policing and censoring a community that was created for the exact intent of avoiding...you got it...censorship.
Steemit, get the shit together. You can't have a platform that is supposed to be founded on freedom of speech and have people with police brutality equivalent mindsets POLICING the posts and abusing power.
Power, I might add, that is not openly available to the content creators. Do you think we would deliberately not give attribute to a model or photographer if we had this technology?
It's complete bullshit.
It's unacceptable.
Either be for freedom of speech and offer the image searching tech to all of Steemit so we can properly curate and give attributions or STOP policing things with human officers.
I've copied all of the conversation proving admission of accessing onlyfans.com private image content below.
I do hope the good fellows at @Steamcleaners paid their $23.00 monthly membership fee before illegally accessing the models paid content in order to prove their point.
If not, @Steemcleaners you should do so immediately.
Because while our mistake can be corrected by attribution of the model (thus giving her more influence by exposure): https://www.instagram.com/dariashy_model/ , illegal access of her paid photo area by @Steamcleaners is not something you can just apologize for.
If you are tired of the bullshit tyranny by this group of children, delegate your steem and votes this way and we will be sure to fight their suppression while giving models the exposure they deserve on this platform.
- Team FITBUSINESSMAN