With no form of censorship or control- an unfortunate situation may arise where a party ends up hosting illegal content- to which they could potentially be held responsible.
There is something in the blockchain that prevents that - I don't remember exactly what it is, but when some content is considered illegal or a request to remove it for privacy reasons is received, that content can be removed, there is a transaction for that.
As for incentivizing full nodes, that would certainly be great. It's becoming almost impossible to keep up with the growth. SSD storage needed for a full node is nearing 200 GB, and we're only having less than 40k people hanging around.
It all depends on what Steemit INC considers relevant to implement at this moment. Alternatively, a group of devs could fork the codebase, start developing this and then submit a PR. Or just keep playing with the new codebase, by starting a new blockchain.
It's good to know that there is a mechanism in place to protect people from that.
Is a full fork the only way to sufficiently manage changes that aren't directly requested by steemit inc?