From this CFR discussion a couple years ago[0]: "… What about Twitter? I have no idea what Twitter is good for. But if it flips out every tyrant in the Middle East, I'm interested." - Michael Rogers, Founder, Practical Futurist; Futurist-in-Residence, New York Times Company

It seems as though some people are starting to realize the weapon they thought was their own, was never theirs at all… inserts something about chickens coming home and roosting

All in all, every step twitter takes to "protect" its platform (euphemism for those with voices most likely to be received and implemented by them, to achieve some arbitrary censorship ends) will be a step forward for federated and decentralized social networks.

Though, who are we kidding, lets hope that in the next election, even more money is wasted by the entrenched and ossified political orders and even more for the one that looses that needs some PR to cover their ass from the carnage that comes after, after all, its just good business.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20140531073143/http://www.cfr.org...