The fact that Steemit can arbitrarily decide to censor their feed of the Steem forum makes Steem much less valuable to me.
Steem's only claim to fame is that the blockchain it runs on cannot be censored. Without that, it's no different content-wise than any other web-based message board out there.
Are there any reader applications that directly parse the blockchain to provide the uncensorable forum that Steemit apparently cannot?