[whywhywhywhy]

> Opensea is managed by opensea staff

Opensea is just a viewer and tool to interact with contracts. If your NFT is removed from opensea it could still be interacted with through another platform or a platform you make yourself (see notlarvalabs).

E.g the developer of a large NFT platform called hicetnunc had a temper tantrum and deleted their entire platform. But because it’s decentralized another platform (objkt) now provides all the same functionality with the same data.

Because of this you can see why there are such passionate people either side, a lot to gain but also a lot to lose if you’ve normally profited from owning data.

[grey-area]

That’s the theory, in practice the largest market wins, nfts are often urls to a particular service and opensea does things like this:

https://blockzeit.com/opensea-nft-marketplace-stops-hacker-f...

This is very much controlled by the intermediary (as well as the chain it uses).