Just yesterday, I discovered a wildly entertaining, educational, and potentially red-pilling website called [COVIDChartsQuiz.com](https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/). This site offers 4 different quizzes, all of which are simply you looking at COVID charts for different states or countries, and making guesses about when lockdowns happened, when mask mandates happened, etc. It's all quite simple to read the data, and I think most people will be surprised by the results. From their [front page](https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/): > *Welcome to the COVID Charts Quiz!* > > *In 2020 people were told that business closures, stay-at-home orders, lockdowns, and mask mandates were necessary to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2.* > > *Some people expected that places where these measures were absent or implemented half-heartedly would have drastically worse results.* > > *With more than a year of these measures behind us, it's time to evaluate the results.* > > *Preliminary academic studies have already been published, and they deserve our attention. This quiz is intended for the layman, because if these radical measures were truly justified the results should be clear and unambiguous in the data.* > > *So let's take a look.* # Take the Quizzes Here [Mask Quiz](https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/mask-quiz) [Lockdown Quiz](https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/lockdown-quiz) [Pin Thanksgiving on the Midwest](https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/midwest-quiz) [State vs State Quiz](https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/state-vs-state-quiz)

So, while Hive is certainly censorship-resistant, and at its worst doesn't even have the ability to censor in the ways that the dinosaur corporate social media do every day. There are, however, some major issues built into Hive's voting system, and the idea of dPoS as a whole. The biggest problem being that *S*, which stands for Stake. Proof of Stake. That means that whoever buys stake gets to decide what happens - to a degree. Stake votes not only on posts, but on [DHF proposals](https://peakd.com/proposals), and [witnesses](https://peakd.com/witnesses), and through those things, stake controls the entire network. Platforms like FB, YT, and pretty much anywhere else (certainly every centralized platform) have what we'll call **hard censorship**. At any time, if they want, they can delete posts, the can delete accounts, they can limit or complete stop traffic from a feed or post, and all sorts of other thins. On Hive, the censorship that does exist tends to come in just a few forms - none of which derive at a centralized control point. Censorship here tends more towards what I'd call **soft censorship**, as the result of that stake-based voting power. Because the rewards from a post (or many posts) can be completely zero'd out by just one or two whales - it's very easy to imagine why so many creators have given up on Hive/Steem along the way, or have self-censored away from certain topics in order to not get down-voted. There are also **black-lists** created and maintained by various users of the platform, which different front-ends like **peakd** can choose whether or not to use. --- --- ## My Social Medias Blog (everything but gaming): https://peakd.com/@kennyskitchen Videos (everything but gaming): https://odysee.com/@kennyskitchen:9 Blog (gaming): https://peakd.com/@kennysgaminglife Videos (gaming): https://odysee.com/@kennysgaminglife:9 --- --- # The Current Conversation I often don't notice folks getting flagged to zero, since those folks tend to wait until the very end of the 7-day payout period, in order to stop anyone from countering their down-votes. In this particular wave of down-vote censorship, I first noticed that this [epic article](https://peakd.com/vaccine/@lethalinjections/hidden-truth-about-the-shots), which was simply a collection of stories about vaccine injuries, taken right out of the headlines & social media. The article was quite successfully going viral (in the Hive sense at least), and was of course flagged right to zero. [](https://peakd.com/vaccine/@lethalinjections/hidden-truth-about-the-shots) Then I saw @ura-soul's article on the topic: [When Is a Censor Not A Censor? The Wider Implication of Downvote/Cancel Culture on Hive.](https://peakd.com/hive-150329/@ura-soul/when-is-a-censor-not-a-censor-the-wider-implication-of-downvotecancel-culture-on-hive) It's well written, in-depth, had a ton of conversation happening in its comment section, and then some of the same down-voters piled in.  That was just the big article **about** what's been happening, of course. Here are some of the recent zero'd out articles as well. This just a couple days out of @ura-soul's blog-roll honestly. I'm not trying to go too super in-depth at the moment, I've already been through my fair share of flag wars since joining Steemit, and I just let it wash over me at this point.  # Thanks for tuning in! Just like the economics of Hive aren't quite as idyllic as something like **Rainbow**, or my own vision for the future of humanity - it's free speech priorities are not nearly what one would hope for in a platform for journalists or other truth-seekers... but technically Hive doesn't claim to be any of these things. For now, it's the best option there is, as far as I know - and it's a LOT better than alternatives like Facebook, Twitter, Ethereum, etc etc. For those of you who want to dive deeper into the current conversation happening, here's some other articles about Hive's cancel culture, down-vote culture, and the extent to which it is actually censorship-resistant :-) * [The Hive Of Polarity: Information Underload And Questioning The Emperor's Clothing](https://peakd.com/hive/@barge/the-hive-of-polarity-information-underload-and-questioning-the-emperors-clothing) by @barge * [LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS DOWNVOTE BULLSHIT](https://peakd.com/proofofbrain/@frot/lets-talk-about-this-downvote-bullshit) by @frot

That's right folks, Mark Cuban just went from [pushing the new shitcoin "IRON"](https://investorplace.com/2021/06/titan-crypto-12-things-to-know-about-mark-cuban-and-iron-finances-defi-plunge/), to [calling for the regulation of stable-coins](https://u.today/billionaire-mark-cuban-wants-to-regulate-stablecoins-after-collapse-of-titanium-token) after it's (obvious & expected) collapse.  And, it turns out [he dumped before/because of the impending collapse](https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/1405306497257586688) - just forgot to mention that part to his followers... Here's the [chart of IRON](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/iron-titanium-token/):  --- --- # My Social Medias Blog: https://peakd.com/@kennyskitchen Videos: https://odysee.com/@kennyskitchen:9 Telegram Channel: https://t.me/kennysfeed

Here's the follow up to my "Anarchapulco: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" video from Tuesday. I wanted to address a few things that had come up in the FB comments. 1. If anyone watched that video and thought it was all about the fact that I lost money on the event... maybe you need to re-watch it, because that was just a tiny thing that I mentioned once in those 32 minutes, and not in any way the focus/purpose of the video. 2. Similarly, if anyone watched that video and thought it was "30 minutes of whining" (as some comments said), I would again recommend re-watching it, especially the first 15 minutes, which were exclusively me sharing how amazing my experience at Anarchapulco has been since 2015. 3. I needed to correct the statement I made about the interaction I witnessed between Clive de Carle & Jessica Kill, after @CatherineBleish informed me that it was actually 35 tickets sold and 40 people let in free, not "a few" as I had said in the video. 4. I have nothing against the event itself, and if it turns around and gets back on track with the intentions & purpose of the last four years, I'd be happy to come back again next year. 5. Even if Anarchapulco completely crashed & burned, and this was the last year, that doesn't mean anything in particular for the movement, as there are already TONS of alternatives (some decades older and some brand new), including Jackalope Freedom Festival, Anarchadelphia, Anarchizona, Porcfest, The Rainbow Gathering, Midwest Peace & Liberty Fest, Be Empowered, etc. For the whole list of events like this that I've found, click here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xfxko9ixrydRNXMV4oxLSl59qJnAL6NP6RVsNG6KfDg/edit?usp=sharing It sounds like Derrick Broze (Guy Mann on FB), Danny F. Quest, and Jeff Berwick are all going to be releasing content going more in-depth into the things I mentioned in my first video (and much more), so look out for those if you want to get a more full picture. For myself, I feel like between these videos I've really said all that I need to say about the event this year, and I'm going back to simply focusing on the message, my own growth, and of course getting ready for Be Empowered (the conference I'm producing in May) In case you missed the first video, you can find it here: FB: https://www.facebook.com/100007494367650/videos/2113706245555834 Dtube: https://d.tube/#!/v/kennyskitchen/h2anw8et Youtube: https://youtu.be/BNY27Dpqo30 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB2i5keQi0E