> I just don't understand the alternative Well, one alternative would be that they have to decouple their front-end and back-end and provide open APIs to their

> I just don't understand the alternative Well, one alternative would be that they have to decouple their front-end and back-end and provide open APIs to their backend (posts/tweets, friends lists, etc.). Facebook/Twitter can moderate/censor whatever they want on their own front-ends, but they can't remove anything from the backend. People/companies can build alternative front-end apps that access the fb/twitter graphs and censor in a different way - so that users have an alternative.