Steempeak has followed Steemit in blocking TDO btw!

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Is steemd a part of steemit inc? I thought it was. But since the account in question is visible there it must not be. However the important thing for people to realize is that while the account is not visible with steemit, it still is with other front ends. So the steem blockchain is working as it should.

Has anyone tried to resteem one of their post via another front end and see if it shows up in their blog list? If  it does show up then steemit was unsuccessful at banning the account from their system.

Also steemworld gets all their info from the blockchain and the account is visible there also.

Instead of using @thedarkoverlord in the aim of mass-adoption STINC ruined that chance. Also having those guys on the blockchain can positively impact the STEEM price.

I really do not know what to think about this.

If true, and not some glitch, then there is a filtering layer being run on steemit dot com.  That it exists is abhorrent when considering what steem was built for/on/about.  It may turn out to be the same piece that allows a person to block/mute someone, and as such ...

I will take a lot of time to think about this.

This app is reaching him too
https://www.steeve.app/@thedarkoverlord
Go and get it.

While I sort of see why STInc did it, I have mixed feelings. Their posts belong on the ‘dark web’ with their content not the way most see it. I disliked their focus on selling to the highest bidder but was interested in the material they offered. I am still unsure if it’s even legitimate, ya people looked at it but it was only a very basic layer. Did they truly have damaging info or was it just a larp?

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I think it's indicative of where the crypto space is heading.  Much like with the early days of the internet, crypto has been revolutionary, liberating, and largely free from control and restriction.  With mass adoption comes mass control and restriction.  Just look at bitcoin, it's transitioned from something independent of governments and the financial system to where people are begging for "better" regulation and the involvement of the financial system.

However, just as with the internet, you can still manage free speech / anonymity, it just takes more work and effort than before.  This is Steemit Inc covering their ass so that the government don't come after them.

Interesting discussion in all the comments: A lot of you have made a good point, why should Steemit stick its neck out for the hacker?   I guess this is what happens when you hack a law firm.  The law firm is going to sue whoever they can -When you have a hammer the whole world looks like a nail. And when you are a law firm, the first inclination is to sue. It should also be pointed out with steemit had significant layoffs and is not exactly in a financial place to fight a lawsuit. Lawsuit's get very expensive fast -racking up bills of $250 to $500 USD per hour.  One has to think about -if you were the executive, is this where and when you want to fight?  A lot of winning in war is strategically engaging the enemy when the odds are on your side. From Steemit's perspective, this is only going to bring bad news and bad attention and is not what any Public Relations professional would want or Middle Manager wants to deal with. Steemit has much more pressing problems.

There are things that should remain private.  Hacking is against the law. They may have tried to get the simplest and easiest out.  Almost every platform out there has had to deal with these same issues.

@krnel, until today I have never heard about The Dark Overload .... So, I don't know what kind of information they usually post. But I happy that the case with this account is a proof that STEEM Blockchain is decentralized. We have many alternatives (I mean frontends). So, now I am more optimistic about the long run success os STEEM ecosystem ..., because it seems thyst we can survive even without Steemit.inc

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I think it is Steemit's call to make. It is the blockchain itself that is censorship resistant, not the individual front ends. Those are at the discretion of whoever is running them. Maybe someone will come up with an open source local interface to the blockchain one of these days...a program you can download and use as your interface instead of relying on a web interface that someone else controls.

Steemit Inc. can do whatever they want, but actions like this will just further encourage the use of  other interfaces.

I am fucken pissed! The hacker in question has proof that the 9/11 was a false flag operation, this was supposed to be a descentralized blockhain, with no external censorship, what do we do to defend freedom!? We banned the poor guy who is risking his live for telling the truth...We now live in a dictatorship of minoritys, murders, pedophiles, and fagoots...Let´s see if the faggots have money to maintain STEEMIT... Cause smart people won´t buy this shit...I am almost for shure powering down after this.

I think this is a great move.  Why?

>As you can see, @thedarkoverlord can still be found on other frontends:

It's yet another move that separates Steemit from the Steem blockchain.  We need people looking at our platform from the unique perspective of what it is, not some Podunk social media that will never make it.

Never heard of him, lol but what kind of things information does he get?

It is sad to see this happen, because the number 1 reason for steem to exists is being uncensorable. 

Of course the account still runs on the chain, but removing it from the biggest front-end is a blow to free speech. I think it shows that we need to move to different front-ends.  

I hope this will not affect any of the steem-operated api's and nodes. That would cause a mess. 

I also wonder if steemit was pressured to act? This does seem very very strange.

I think it's really fucking stupid. Do criminals not have free speech? Granted, technically a company doesn't have to allow anyone to use their service, but it's a real dick move to deny access to an account for crimes unrelated to the service. Unless of course they posted something stolen from a hack to the Steem blockchain?

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How are the ToS for busy.org and steempeak.com different from steemit.com?
As long as it is on the blockchain and cannot be deleted and can still be accessed I am okay with this.
Funny I was just noticing, before this post that I could not see the overlord post that I saw a few days earlier. Thanks for the explanation,
This shines light on how steemit is not the same as steem.

That is interesting.

Interesting. Stopped by their page yesterday, seemed like a load of bollocks but definitely created a buzz in the community. I haven’t seen someone get banned due to ToS violations here before

That's what Steemit Inc should do. Why should they make an exception in the case of this hacker group? I'm not a big fan of anyone hacking into any information systems just to extort money. I find that despicable. 

Snowden is different. He did what he did to expose criminal and immoral acts perpetrated by the government.

I'd like to see a front end which only publishes content that's on chain but not on steemit.com.

Less reliance on Steemit Inc and more on witnesses and community to drive the chain forward. Steemit Inc. maintaining core software great, SMTs great, but can retire steemit.com, or hand it over to the community somehow. I know it gets difficult, how to fund that etc. Prob needs a higher token price and community voting to direct funding to shared purpose of token holders. Being an uncensorable platform is steemit's best differentiator just now. This action sets that story back. Very bad form from Steemit Inc. other competing platforms are on the. way

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Since steemit.com is starting to ban some content, the matter is clear to me...
It's worth breaking down your comfort and habits and changing to a different frontend.
That's why we value Steem so much because it allows us to get away from censorship.
Meanwhile, steemit.com is starting to turn into Facebook on blockchain.

Thanks for posting, Steemit lost a golden opportunity to grow! A censorship free platform, I never would have guessed it would be Corporations that destroyed the Constitution, I always thought some Uber Fascist in Government would be responsible!

Wait. It is banned from Steemit, but not from busy.org and steempeak.com.

Think ... think ...

So what you really are saying is Steemit is for the dumbo's and the other 2 are for the smarter peeps?

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I can understand their decision to mitigate a foreseeable legal problem by not allowing their venue to promote what, if true, would put them in the same class as WikiLeaks. Guessing Ned doesn't want to live in an embassy while plans are hatched for his demise.

For me that is a kind of censorship, HOWEVER, the Steemit.com is a property from Steemit Inc, which could ban anyone that they don't like it, is the right of them. Of couse, I think that is a kind of Facebook censorship, which prohibit the free speech, but if you agree with the terms of use, you cannot say that they don't advise you about that.
That is what I like in the blockchain, you can only banned from front-end, since everything he posted continue to be on chain!

If we want STEEM to get listed on CoinBase ever, then we can't have hackers attacking US government. Coinbase will be de-listing coins that harbor such activities. Sucks, but that is reality.

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