To quote David &quot;Iowahawk&quot; Burge, &quot;<i>Twitter is a private firm &amp; perfectly free to ban&#x2F;shadowban me or anyone else. It&#x27;s not like I&#x27;m asking them to bake me a gay wedding cake.</i>&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;iowahawkblog&#x2F;status&#x2F;701077040238194688" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;iowahawkblog&#x2F;status&#x2F;701077040238194688</a>).  (Oops, just noticed I&#x27;m echoing bprieto who made this point an hour earlier.)<p>I&#x27;d add their platform is every bit their own as that of a Mississippi lunch counter owners&#x27;.  The ship you claim is protecting them sailed decades ago.<p>Further, <i>it isn&#x27;t their&#x27;s</i> after they IPOed, it&#x27;s their shareholders, who might want a word with them about driving away half their user base....