RE: Is Hive censorship-resistant?

I tend to disagree with this point as there are different layers of censorship. What’s going on with hive for some posts is essentially shadow banning. It’s the same as the big platforms like Twitter and Fakebook. The content is out there but people don’t see it unless they physically visit your page. I think the same is true on hive where a whale may disagree with an authors perspective for what ever reason and down vote it, regardless if the content is valuable to the users that are interested in it. This then hides it saying “this content got low ratings, click to show” or something of the extent. A passerby is likely not going to click on it sadly and significantly reducing the potential audience.

I get the disagreement with rewards end, sure the person may or may not take their money off the platform but I’ve sadly seen incredible journalists on here get blacklisted and now they don’t post here any longer and have removed hive from their list of platforms they promote to people who are looking for better platforms than the mainstream ones. These journalists are struggling to survive and reach audiences because of big tech censorship and I feel like we are doing the same.

In the end my point is so many people tout censorship resistance here but sadly I think that’s a load of horse shit if you get to the wrong end of a whales opinion on a topic and they find it within their day to down vote it. My personal opinion is if the topic isn’t for you, move on as long as there isn’t plagiarism of content or images, or threats of violence.

The hive platform has thankfully come a long way for sure but I tend to disagree with this censorship resistance notion. Shadow banning is most definitely censorship.

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