My goal will be to utilize this platform to ingrain, entrench, fortify, and make better-known, materials that are commonly censored without good reason.
What are good reasons to censor? (In general)
- A compellingly strong state interest such as to reduce child abuse (e.g. censoring child pornography)
- To prevent imminent physical danger (e.g. censoring the documentation of an online user ("doxxing") if it is reasonable that someone might threaten the person's physical self or surroundings)
- The above includes censoring the organization of violent crimes (e.g. censoring a tag intended to collect people in order to organize the murder of people in a specific city).
What are bad reasons to censor? (In general)
- Religion
- Your feelings
- What you consider vulgar such as profanity
- Nudity and sexual depictions
Who am I to determine the above?
- As a user of the platform, I am given certain powers, guarantees, and ethical responsibilities. The use of these is largely to my discretion. Even if steemit.com is controlled by a central authority, the blockchain itself is very difficult to censor. Therefore, I have come to the above determinations using ethics. The main ethical frameworks I use are of the "greater good for the most," as well as a utilitarian type framework. I categorically reject the religious "ethical" framework.