As far as Twitter is concerned, my take on the "Stay and fight! Don't cede the town square!" argument is that's fine and good for some people for a certain amount of time, but if the town square eventually becomes a Nuremberg rally it might be time to leave.
@BrooklynSpoke I have been thinking a lot about this wrt work and how Twitter is used as a public utility and have no idea what the answer is there.
@plitter It's really difficult. I think organizations, electeds, journalists and others who are more in public service jobs will have a much harder time of it.