Far more consequential to individuals blogging are the platforms like Goolag, Twatter, and Microshaft that are delegated the responsibility to censor and ban by state actors.

What we see across the world and internet today is that those platforms are the vector for surveillance and censorship.  It isn't the CIA or Mossad directly banning and censoring us.  This is why Steemit remains relatively censorship resistant today, as it is apparently not such a subcontractor for state oppression, which makes it available to us to speak freely today.