Dan GillmorThe Twitter API lockout of third-party apps is only the latest reminder of centralization's most important rule: The platform owner has the right to capriciously wreck the businesses of people who accepted the platform's invitation to run a business on the platform.
Keith@dangillmor Frankly, the idea that the capitalists are going build us a powerful communication tool that we can use to organize is preposterous. They will never let it happen.
People powered is the only way to go.
Otherwise, you're just the product, and they will do with you what they please.