> if I'm not going to allow access to that content for free, why would you give me your content? A bunch of reasons potentially, wider reach probably being the

> if I'm not going to allow access to that content for free, why would you give me your content? A bunch of reasons potentially, wider reach probably being the main one, but maybe also stuff like ways for your audience to interact with you/the content/each other. > The ToS might allow for it "It's in the ToS so it's fine" is a bad argument, but I'm not saying that. I guess there's two things: a) empirically, do users actually expect that content be available "for free" (in general? just to themselves?) from a platform b) is there a "good reason" that this should be a social expectation? a)'s a tricky question with multiple parts but I'm not especially convinced. I imagine a lot of users aren't even really thinking about that kind of thing b) I could imagine being convinced about, but "they didn't make the content" doesn't feel sufficient.