I admire your adherence to principle, but I fear you underestimate the ability of a currency thrust into the wallets of 2 billion people, as well as their aversion to centralization. We few here on Steemit know the value of decentralization. Most of us are highly skeptical, at best, of centralized organizations, governments, and other legal persons with less compassion than psychopaths.
Corporations aren't human. They can't be humane.
China loves Fakebook. ZuckerBorg helped them to develop means of censoring their people. Consider the value of the data acquistion Fakebook can continue to supply them in their program to institute total social control.
Consider also their demonstrable efforts to shed the petrodollar, going so far as to create the petroyuan. Venezuela has recently announced the PETRO. Russia created the cryptoruble. All of these currencies are intended to replace dollars, and eliminate American control of internation markets.
Fakebook has more users than all those nations together have citizens.
Russia is facing a three-pronged assault on it's borders. Ukraine, Korea, and Afghanistan aren't random places for the deep state to unleash violence and vicious criminality. They've got little to lose, as the corner they're being backed into is their heartland.
When you say 'once people have lost their trust' in corporations, I must agree. But, they never will lose that trust. The litany of ill considered opinions being drafted into law, impressed on our children through public 'school' indoctrination, and drummed into our brains through Mockingbird Media will make the Chinese social control mechanism totally effective.
Fakebook, Gargle, and Twaddle joined with disaffected nations against US/EU hegemony will control half the world, and most of the manufacturing. The financial dominance of the West will be immaterial with the implementation of hostile cryptocurrencies, and economic pressure on legacy financial systems already primed for collapse will destroy what little capacity remnant for producing war materiel.
Steemit is warped into a rewards mining game for 38 whales. What can Steemit do to stop China and Fakebook from taking over the world?
These are very important points you are making. The one thing that makes me positive though is, that looking at the young generation (my daughter is 15), they don´t use Facebook anymore (not even WhatsApp - maybe Insta a little). Yes, maybe this is only the case with the next generation in Europe or US - I can´t tell what young people in China, Russia and all the Asian countries are doing. You might say, that if they don´t use FB, then just another centralized option, but we have the chance to get them right there. If developers on the STEEM blockchain can provide Apps similar to Snapchat and targeted to the next generation, I see huge potential in that.
Yes, at the moment it seems to be a David vs. Goliath situation, and the only option we have is to stick to our principles and continue to support Team David as good as we can and try to get the young adults and next gen on our boat. Time is on our side - old structures are crumbling and yes, there will be a huge war over power incoming, but I am here to wave our flag on the battlefield and everyone here should do the same. We have the chance to make it - maybe I´m naive, but I take the risk! Thank you for your in-depth comment! #teamdavid 😉
I think in China the messaging app of choice is Wechat, and the search engine is Baidu.
Dunno. Never used either one.
I'm all for taking the right course for human freedom. I don't wanna be naive about it, though, because I don't wanna be blindsided by tricksy bastages.
I wanna win.