Whales can ban together against such actions also. Dan doesn't personally control enough to unilaterally get his way.
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Whales can ban together against such actions also. Dan doesn't personally control enough to unilaterally get his way.
It really depends on whether he is willing to use the steemit account or not. Currently, Steemit controls enough stake to unilaterally get their way using the on-blockchain governance system, if they really wanted to. Things are further complicated by the legal issues with the license, which depending on how you read it, may or may not allow Steemit to make a copyright infringement claim against anyone supporting, distributing, or running a hardforking modified version of Steemit's steemd software that they do not support.
Of course, from a PR point of view, Steemit should not push through with such a controversial change if there really is broad support against it. But it is important for people to understand that as it currently stands with both the distribution of Steem Power and the licensing terms of the only implementation of a Steem node existing today, Steemit could technically always unilaterally get their way if they really wanted to. I hope to see both of those things change in the future.
granted i don't know any of the prehistory, but it looks like there was a time , a month or so ago when the steemit cleaned house among the top 19 witnesses.