Just some deranged rich snob who thinks UGC is .. his? Kinda sad if you think about it. People posted on Twitter with the expectation of it being public, not some man's sandbox.

That whole tweet reads like a screenwriter shit it out to fill some tech mumbojumbo plot point for a police procedural.

He only cares because it's not him that's doing the pillaging.

Right, they will do a cost/benefit analysis to see if the amount of traffic and engagement that they lost cost more or less than what they made or saved by forcing log in.