I find it interesting that nobody is mentioning the inverse - plenty of HNers seem to think it is okay to redistribute companies&#x27; generated content (and I agree with piracy) yet many of you here are somehow thinking that because of &quot;privacy&quot; on a perfectly public website like Twitter that a company shouldn&#x27;t be allowed to redistribute what (unfortunately) is content that Twitter owns (because the user submitted to Twitter and Twitter&#x27;s terms). But what ever happened to the privacy rights of companies&#x27; generated content, why shouldn&#x27;t they require you to get permission before you reshare that pirated content? I sniff double standards.