Okay, I understand the goal of Steemit to motivate users to generate unique content. But I have a gripe about this. How do you ever expect to compete with facebook or youtube if you discourage everyone from circulating news about current events previously published elsewhere on the internet? You can't. This is self defeatism. I know this post is going to be controversial, and I really hope it sparks some soul searching conversations here. I see alot of potential with steemit and I would hate to see a valuable decentralized social network fail for lack of foresight.