The simple version as I see it is that if Social Media account is used for PERSONAL things only, they can block people, if they use it to communicate within the scope of their job as a public servant then they can't.

Most people can't help themselves and comingle their public life and their private life.

Get ready to be flooded with regurgitated hamburger content; it will soon be deemed commercially economically unpalatable to create anything that's actually new.

Wonder why Hollywood is so hooked on basing everything on existing IP? Sequels, prequels, etc? Sora will be the AI that they replace the meat objects with, much as Uber/Lyft/UPS/DoorDash/etc. want to replace the meat objects behind the wheel.

So, a person creates an app, that fits a niche enough to start making money and a knockoff appears that literally steals customers. That's the real competition. And it sucks.

Wow, I did NOT SEE that coming

They are back to censoring people now. Elon isn't in charge and those that are, are in fact increasingly censoring people like the good old days.

The end is nigh

Obviously didn't see the recent bruhaha about broken AI models due to over sensitive DEI type modeling.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/ar...

That wasn't AI's LLM problem, that was a human programmer (AI Training) problem. The result is effectively censorship. Luckily we live in a free and open society, so they were caught and exposed. The results were both terrifying and Humorous. I searched on Google a few different ways to get the link above, but Google has effectively (tried to anyways) censored it.

Censorship doesn't work in a free and open society.

Class Action Lawsuit should be available, right?

And I would suggest that any terms of service that changes functionality AFTER purchase is not a legal contract, as there is no option to negotiate. Terms of Service changes that take consumers' rights away should be null and void, IMHO