[dclowd9901]

In thinking on it a bit, you could call Twitter a “printing press” of sorts. They have no stake in the content game, per se, but are the means of transmission.

The precedent here is that printing presses also held a lot of power in their time to print, which is why the newspapers themselves owned their own printing presses: so they couldn’t silenced by a third party.

I don’t think you can expect to use someone else’s means of transmission freely and expect free reign of usage.

That just means we ought to explore ways to decentralize distribution systems like Twitter.