Will it be Lights out?
I came across this post, We are not Immune. Why ZuckerBorg is a threat to Steemit today in my feed by
, one of my more loyal participants of dialoge on my own steemit.com post. I breifly commented on his post but I remained so rattled by what I read I could not shake it. I had much more to say and simple comment would not suffice.image
As a STEEM investor and Steemit Witness I found the content of his post very disturbing.
was summizing his take on an article at the Sovereign Man website by Simon Black. The post detailed how Facebook had banned ads for ICO's and cryptocurrency on it's platform in order to protect its users from frauds. Now this is not really news to the steemit.com community, it has been written about here already in many post. But remarked about how Mark Zuckerberg was not just a threat to Steemit.com but a threat to everyone.
That is disturbing, particularly to me, as an investor in STEEM and steemit.com. The fact that Mark Zuckerberg is likely developing a cryptocurrency to be used on Facebook similar to how STEEM is used on Steemit to reward upvotes and to encourage user based policing of content, Whoa!. The idea is almost exactly what we have here on steemit. But the Simon Black article outlines much much more that actually poses an actual threat to the existance of Steemit and possible STEEM, at least its actual value would be hammered.
How Steemit.com fairs in the near term could depend greatly on how fast it can build and reward exFacebookers. We need faster onbording of new users. This is addressed in Hardfork 20 but no one knows when that will be rolled out by STEEM Inc. So far we have been coasting along on HF19 with two softfork revisons. It's been 8 months since Steemit.com saw any major upgrade.
Another thing we will need are whales to start voting on low level post made by plankton and minnows in a swamp filled with greedy old STEEM timers that incestuously self-vote and ONLY vote on other old STEEMers post. They need to make the swamp worth the swim. It's easy to see, just find an account with a rep score of 60+ and a wallet balance of greater than 50K SP and you will only see votes cast to and from the same group of STEEMers. Like i said it is incestuous!
The flag wars would have to be programmaticaly resolved and the Steemit community would have to be guided in a fashion that encourages rewarded good content by those that have the means to do so whiile discouraging the blatant flagging and abusive behaviour of some whales with a god complex that reward tehmselves for there self assumed yet missguided attemtps at "saving the Reward Pool from rape" while raping the reward pool with self-voting for their own comments on flagged post.
Even if the US Government were to try and use anti-trust laws to breakup Fascistbook as a monoply it is digitally structured in such a way that Dictator Zuckerberg could simply establish his home realm in Belieze or the Grand Caymans, or even China. Yes China. The Chinese are particularly fond of Zucked Fuckerberg as he has openly assisted them in siliencing online dissent against the Chinese government. They would welcome his kingdom with open arms.
It was once rumored that $RDD Reddcoin would be adopted by facebook for this very purpose but after this read I cannot imagine why Dorkerberg would use anything but his very own crypto. Fascist-Coin Perhaps?
The time grows near that Zuckerberg could flip the switch and make this happen with his vast reach into AI tech and his seemingly unlimited finacial stream of ad dollars with which to pay hordes of HB1 Visa blockchain programmers doing jobs Americans won't do . He could overnight create his crypto-kingdom that he will command as the Worlds most powerful.... Central Banker.
Yes, Mark Zuckerberg could in one fell swoop, destroy steemit.com
This Simon Black article needs to be absorbed by all the top 20 witnesses on Steemit; 
It would not hut for @Ned and @Stan to have a peek as well.
Wake up Steemians, The barbarians are at the gate!
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