You make a good point there with hosting providers censoring people and net neutrality being a huge issue at the moment with the average internet user not giving two shits but those who make a living off of it need it. I think if free speech and uncnesored or indpenedant news agencies want to keep going they will need to embrace blockchain and like you said why not steem.

We already prove the use case every day and i've been saying for a while we need more formal creators on steemit or dApp for them to use. I really think it would bring great value to the steem blokchain and pull us out of this obsecure social media tag we currently have