People seem to be fighting a straw man with  @Parker Lewis right now due to some simple phrasing.

Is he really saying "the protocol doesn't matter"?

Or is he saying that "there is more than one route to censorship (e.g. censoring apps that sit atop the protocol), and IN ADDITION TO THE PROTOCOL it would be great if there was a way for companies to resist those pressures as well."

What am I missing here?