In the light of the Presidential election coming up, one would think a platform to express ones feelings on the subject should be available. As of this last summer we have seen cases of mainstream media supporting one candidate and suppressing another.
My main reason for joining Steemit was that I believed I could post and view political posts. From what I've seen, it appeared that more people were siding with Trump than Clinton on this site. Removing the politics link at this time might lead one to believe this site is doing the same type of censoring as the mainstream media.
Hmm ... Interesting that the "sex" tag was put back in.