Thank you lukestokes for sharing you concerns here I totally understand and respect them, I enjoyed as well discussing this matter with you and corinnestokes before this thread was posted, it was really instructive, and that post has an interesting legal insight posted by sean-king. I think everyone reading this should go ahead and read it here
Regarding your concern and others’ about the whole site being taken down, I don’t think it’s possible given all legal precautions are taken, like stated in sean-king post. Sites being taken down over copyright issues are typically torrent sites that do not respond to DMCA takedowns and share large content mainly in the music, film and software industry, there is no comparison to be made with social media sites, if so, Facebook, Twitter and all other social platform would be long gone by now.
It’s always a pleasure discussing with intelligent and respectful people like you, I did not take any offence from you or corinnestokes.
Thanks again for your great way of discussing this in a mature and responsible way.
Thank you. :) This comment made my morning, along with my wife. Mature, responsible discussions are what separate Steemit out from the rest of the Internet. I hope you stay for those, if nothing else.
Fist time I hear a whiny rage quit post being qualified of "mature, responsible discussion". What part of it was mature and responsible exactly? The part where @masteryoda slings mud indiscriminately at the #steemitabuse team of volunteers curators because we dared challenging his notion of fair use? The part where he throws baseless accusations against @ned that he still hasn't backed? Or the part where he implies there is a conspiracy against him because he got a single downvote on his last post?
Let's get real people. Payout time is over, you can put down the violins.
Wow, just Wow, your rudeness and hate has no limits. Here's a small sample snippet of some chat that took place in your police channel proving there was conspiracy against me and vote dictating:
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i’ve also reached out to those with large accounts who are voting for him
It seems you did not like being exposed for who you really are.
@recursive: please view the conversation we are referring to here. In my opinion, it was mature and responsible. I've withheld my negative opinions about the rage quit here beyond what I've already expressed. I was not present in the Slack channel when the drama went down. My opinion of masteryoda has been influenced greatly by his actions on this thread (and in general), but I tried to keep my personal opinions separate from the more generic ideas being discussed here and how it impacts the future of Steemit.