I think this gets at the root of the decision at Twitter. They were faced with a problem: they want public figures to tweet, but tweeting can be risky. Killing

I think this gets at the root of the decision at Twitter. They were faced with a problem: they want public figures to tweet, but tweeting can be risky. Killing Politwoops makes it just a little safer, and thus they hope more public figures will adopt the service. Frankly, I think it's a bad call. If Twitter is infrastructure, it wouldn't work that way, but Twitter isn't infrastructure it's a company and I can see why it makes sense to do that as a company. It's almost like capitalism doesn't make for good government watchdogs...?