I'm going to say something that may be controversial.
Wouldn't it be easy to censor things here? After all, if a whale downvotes a post, said post will sink and the poster's reputation will go down. Whales control what shows up on the front page; they control what the userbase sees. Honestly, I think this platform has as much potential for shady business as the rest of the web.
RE: The Corbett Report is here. Here's how I introduced Steemit to my 150,000 YouTube subscribers