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Yes, I am well aware Twitter has no obligation to maintain a censorship free platform, and indeed doing so may not make good business sense.

I was simply pointing out that for a brief time, Twitter was a unique Internet platform: both well known (celebrities and politicians use it) and free of censorship. Plenty of sites are censorship free but they are esoteric and laregly unknown to the general population. I admired that Twitter was a popular platform with unrestricted free speech.




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