> Popular platforms remain popular and useful because they have the power to make editorial decisions.
Bingo. I think this is a point that isn't made enough: to the extent platforms like Twitter can continue to exist, it depends on their ability to remove spammers, harassers, and other unwanted participants. Imagine using email in 2020 without a spam filter. Because Twitter isn't an open protocol, they provide both the protocol and the spam filter.
To ask them to stop removing any content would be as disruptive to their business as asking GMail to let all emails through.
Bingo. I think this is a point that isn't made enough: to the extent platforms like Twitter can continue to exist, it depends on their ability to remove spammers, harassers, and other unwanted participants. Imagine using email in 2020 without a spam filter. Because Twitter isn't an open protocol, they provide both the protocol and the spam filter.
To ask them to stop removing any content would be as disruptive to their business as asking GMail to let all emails through.