I absolutely did purposefully deface the cointelegraph tag: nice catch.
Did you really reverse engineer it on Google Images? Dedication!
I've used this image dozens of times with and without the IP tag.

Technically I'm not storing this image.

I'm only pointing to it with a link
The image is stored at https://images.hive.blog/, so if anyone has the right to be mad it's them.
And yet I've never been told by the people who run this server to stop ripping IP.

I have expressed my political views on this topic multiple times now.
IP is no longer relevant, I do not respect entities that claim they own ideas/content.
In fact I would argue that the entire point of crypto is to steal currency IP from central banks.

Hive is a largely lawless ecosystem, and the accounts you mentioned are not all-powerful arbiters of the network. If they come after me in regard to such petty matters (as they have already threatened to multiple times) I'll be detailing extensively in subsequent blog posts why the incessant focus on licking the establishment's boots is arguably damaging to the ecosystem as a whole.

If Hive.Blog personally requests that I stop uploading pirated images to their server, I'll take this much much more seriously, but until such times it is a non-issue for me. At the end of the day the pictures on my blog exist only to break up text into more readable blocks and have very little to do with the value I'm trying to post to the network. Yada yada yada.

I am above the law!