From reading the article, it seems that the TOS giving Medium a right to commercially exploit anything published on their platform without compensating the auth

From reading the article, it seems that the TOS giving Medium a right to commercially exploit anything published on their platform without compensating the author is the key point under discussion. "By furnishing your User Content to Medium, you give Medium a broad license to use and exploit your User Content as it operates and evolves its business...it is a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to exploit all copyright rights now in existence.."