" It's downright foolish for Steemit to attempt to moderate the platform when there are thousands of people here willing to do the job for free."

That's actually the least of the foolishness from my perspective. It's not that their taking on such a thankless task themselves and wasting a free resource that could do it, but that they're taking that power unto themselves, and withholding it from the actual account holders with affected blogs.

They're implementing censorship instead of decentralizing that authority to those whose access to information should be at their sole option.

That is not only foolish, it's the beginning of a slippery slope that leads to an onramp to the mass censorship we see ongoing across the breadth of the internet today - and what I came here specifically to avoid.

That is the height of foolishness IMHO. Fortunately, it's just the UX's that are doing this, and Steem itself remains relatively uncensored - so far.