I think that the Steemit community has the largest overall influence on what gets upvoted. Everything on Steemit can be googled anyway. The controversy-rating of a topic is all relative to the viewer. We could be talking about pizza, and someone could get butthurt because it isn't authentic Chicago pan bread but instead it's some kind of waffle with cheese on top.
RE: Steemit will not resist censorship: it will bring super-censorship and downvote wars