RE: STOP VOTING FOR HIVE OLIGARCHY - START VOTING FOR FREE-SPEECH

I am not against larger accounts. But I was concerned when I felt I was unfairly put on blacklists on Steemit and Hive. Some of my posts were downvoted, my REP score went down a few points a few times since I've joined in 2017. I'm trying to be neutral in this debate. For example, Logic mentioned Block Trades who has a website I've used for buying Bitcoin with. So, I'm not sure if I should not support a website like that.

I think the Block Trades website is useful. On one hand, I may want to support accounts relating to projects I prefer the most including Block Trades, Hive, Ecency, Peakd, Leo Finance, 3Speak, Hive Vote, etc.

But on the other hand, if some accounts are supporting downvote trails, that is where my concern lies to a degree. I can imagine that downvoting and flagging can and could and might do some good in countering spam, hate speech, plagiarism, repetition, redundancy, excess, viruses, bad things perhaps, etc, etc. I'm trying to be neutral in the debate. I understand the arguments regarding what you said, the anti-abuse initiatives.

But where do you draw the line between accounts which might be too big and too small? Accounts are always growing and shrinking. So, I try not to look at the size of the dog in the fight but more so in the size of the fight in the dog to quote Michael Jordan. Absolute power corrupts. The bigger people and corporations get, then that is when the problems can arise. There is a higher potential for abuse of power within centralization of rising power and control. So, choosing not to support larger accounts is a counteraction against that. You said you agree with not supporting larger accounts.

I somewhat agree with that to an extent. But at the same time, if I like an account, if I believe in an account, if I trust an account, a person, a company, etc, then I may support them regardless of how big.

I guess, I will have to take it on a case by case basis.

Right now, I am looking at the 30 witnesses I voted for. I may be changing some of my votes soon. I tend to focus on voting on who I like as opposed to focusing too much on who not to vote for.