Twitter made its bones (and a Netflix special) on the Arab Spring and the way the social network opened up communications for a people beset. Throw some years on top until the paradigm flips and Twitter is banning the President of the United States of America from posting on its network and every other major social network is involved in actively censoring a wide swathe of users, posts and content that doesn’t break any existing laws but is problematic to a worldview that aligns with a certain portion of the population. Social media is a compromised resource, much like the legacy media. They are no longer allied to those that would have speech flow freely until an actual law breaks the movement. Their hegemony must be broken before it is too late. Their ghost-censoring on behalf of the U.S. Government proves that they are not to be trusted.