Well.. that would be a breach of contract (providing NYP paid their utility bills) and they could be sued.
With Twitter et al, their service is free and "you are the product", so.. they can ban you whenever with no recourse at all.
With Twitter et al, their service is free and "you are the product", so.. they can ban you whenever with no recourse at all.
This is basically the NYPost crying because it wants free stuff with no strings attached.
I'm curious what exactly you think they could have done to not end up here. I'm not aware of Twitter even offering a paid service that they could use, and network effects mean that failing to publish on Twitter just means that fewer people will see your stuff.
Twitter doesn't have a paid service for users (it has paid access to their API, just in case somebody on this site still had doubts about what really is their core business), I was just making a (probably poorly phrased) example.