Let's imagine that there's a Russian dissident here, who'd like to share sensitive government information with the world. What stops the Russian government or its oligarchs, to buy into Steemit with a 100 accounts, each worth 100,000 USD, for a total of ten million?
Can you imagine a hundred whales, downvoting any author, regardless of their reputation? How about downvoting everyone on Steemit and holding the network hostage?
Sure, after a 10 million dollar investment, Steem's value will skyrocket. But the entire network will be disrupted, let alone this single person, trying to release important documentation.
What do you think? Can Steemit handle a millionaire adversary and protect free speech?
Or would you rather invite famous whistleblowers here, so they'd drive the price of Steem up, by incenting governments to buy Steem, in order to engage in censorship?
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