News papers have published letters from readers for many years. They've had editorial standards. I don't know if this is much different -- it's faster for sure

News papers have published letters from readers for many years. They've had editorial standards. I don't know if this is much different -- it's faster for sure, but crazy people haven't always had a huge platform. In fact, it's seems reasonable to let people say whatever they want so long as the audience is small. And I wonder isn't that pretty much how it works today? I doubt Twitter would ban my account, if I tried to incite my 5 followers to stage a coup :D