Two of the biggest features of the blockchain revolution are that discretionary power can be replaced with transparent rules-based systems and censorship becomes much more difficult. These are two of the advantages that Steemit has over its centralized counterpart, Reddit, and today's news of Reddit's CEO, Steve Huffman, editing user content highlights this difference.
Huffman's indiscretion was fairly benign, and involved him swapping his name for a subreddit thread organizer's name in some nasty comments as something of a prank. We're not talking about major repression or crimes against humanity here, but the fact that Reddit has the power to make changes to user content and censor material is the big story.
By contrast, Steemit content is stored on an immutable blockchain and user accounts are protected via public-private key encryption; Steemit corporate has no control over our content, and that's a very positive feature in today's world of increasing censorship, loss of privacy, and gross violations of individual liberty.
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Image source: https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/16/reddit-harassment-policy/