It is THE flaw of Steemit. Technically nothing can ever be truly deleted on this platform - which is the second big flaw imo, just you wait until someone drops a motherload of child pornography on here and even big boy sanders up here can flag it all he wants it doesn't change the fact that it's THERE for other pedos to happily look at. But fuckers like this guy up here, or indeed any moneyed entity that wants to directly manipulate the flow of information is free to do so. Imagine if Steemit was as big as Reddit or Facebook, or the both of them combined, i.e. THE social forum of the internet. What's stopping the Chinese Communist party from buying a billion bucks worth of Steem and go to town downvoting every single mention of something negative pertaining to their government. Or Microsoft does the same and goes around flagging every open source project developer on the net, to make sure they have shit reputation and no one's ever gonna see their posts. Or literally any organised abuse like that. Sure if there's literally billions of people on the platform they can counter it, maybe. But what the fuck is 15 SP little guy gonna do about it? You would need hundreds of thousands of little guy upvotes just to counter one big fat downvote by a cashed up lunatic and his psychopath friends.

It's basically like this platform was made for information control and bullying.