Hollywood is quietly smoking on the sidelines.
American journalist @PatrickLancaster and a group of soldiers narrowly escaped an attack by a Ukrainian FPV drone.
Footage from Sudzha, Kursk Oblast.
Watch till the end!
Now, seriously. **
Patrick Lancaster is a war correspondent who was driven out of Hive by local "whales," delegates, and other Russophobes because his content didn’t align with the pre-approved narratives pushed by the corrupt media.
Just think about it—armchair experts from countries far removed from this conflict launched a persecution campaign on Hive, targeting not only Russians but also a professional journalist who risks his life every day to deliver an alternative perspective to the sold-out mainstream media!
Patrick continues to generate exclusive, dynamic content from "the other side," and he’s doing well—he attracts users to the platforms where he publishes, which is more than I can say for our Hive. From what angle could such a biased collective be interesting to investors??? That’s what determines the coin’s value!
This is just one small example of censorship on Hive, enforced through power, stake, and money.
The core principle of such a blockchain is violated—freedom of speech is suffocated by money.
Thanks to mindless Russophobic sentiments imposed from outside, not only is Europe’s economy stagnating—but even a project like Hive has lost its chance at success...
Now here's a little bit about the unpleasantness:
His YouTubechannel itself speaks to his popularity. (***Almost 800,000 subscribers and over 2,000 authors videos!) It could have advertised the hive, attracted investors and critics, but someone decided everything for us in a narrow circle of stakeholders.
Patrick's X
Instead of a hive, he's now posting here: https://patricklancasternewstoday.substack.com/
The second example is when I wrote here about Gonsalo Lira, who was tortured without trial in prison on orders from the Ukrainian authorities for broadcasting the truth about what’s happening here. Because this man exposed the crimes of Zelensky’s regime before being killed, my post and he faced baseless criticism and insults from the local "progressive" crypto crowd... on a supposedly censorship-free blockchain.
Watching with curiosity to see where this goes next, but my initial delight and fascination with these people and place because of the behavior of some of the characters has been replaced by disappointment.
I thought that the level of education of people who have learned about blockchain in some way obliges them to be prudent, responsible, humane, not biased..... How very wrong I was. Lol.
Is it not clear that such behavior only harms this platform, and rate of the hive coin, a favorable atmosphere encouraging the exchange of experience and points of view, attracting new creators and investors?
Hive turns into a tape of fitness reports and contests smartphone photos in which it is difficult to find something informative and really valuable.
The hive has become polarized. Communities live their own interests, so content often goes unnoticed because of "wrong" tags.
Tags are no longer keywords in the text, but calls for attention of certain curators, groups...
Content search is still not properly implemented in any interface after so many years: I spent most of my time searching unsuccessfully for my own old article about Gonzalo Lira.... Tired. Failed. No one will follow the link anyway.))))
You have to keep in your head many references to various tools with which it is convenient or possible to do this or that. In one place, they've never been collected so far
Publishing with ecency, search by tags in peakd, search by articles again in ecency, 10+ tags are possible only in actifit, finance topics through Leo interface, a handy BlockExplorer, too, you'll have to look harder to find. # mushrooms can be ignored at all, and in # b&w you can be insulted, you can't praise Russia, but there are no Nazis in Ukraine...