What's Happening In the World?

I have actually taken a few days off paying much of any attention to what's happening in the world of politics, to focus more on the politics that's taking place here on Steem. Yes, it's very political right now, that's because witnesses decided in secret on a soft fork that will limit the stake Justin Sun acquired in the Steemit purchase.

I'm still very deep in taking into account the perspectives of everyone involved as well as trying to understand what exact action Justin took that made the witness lock his account, rather than first communicate with him. It's only been like 10 days since the news of Steem being sold, and for now I still think it was rather premature to pull that trigger as the witnesses did.

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." - Abraham Lincoln

The main issue I have right now, is the over all optics of what this looks like publicly. Brand new Steem investor buy get shut out buy the Steem community, all his sake was ninja mined, but none of those witnesses ever did anything about it. How exactly does that look to new investors or anyone wanting to join the community. The thing is they don't know it in's and out's of Steem, all the see is "Justin Sun Bought Steemit. Steem Moved to Limit His Power". Was there actual sufficient evidence that we could say this was a real threat, not just made up by everyone thinking of the worse case scenario?

"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place." - Winston Churchill