Platform hosting structurally curbs the free speech that print zines claimed by default.

Evidence

While blogs can be a very empowering medium, there aren’t many people out there capable of fully hosting their own blogs. Therefore, there is usually an Internet ser vice provider that has the power to pull the plug on something it deems offensive, be it because of politics, sex, religion, copyright, or anything else. It’s also much more difficult for the average blogger to be truly anonymous than it is for a zinester. Being able to violate copyright and readers’ ethics or sensibilities [has its] good and bad points. Part of what makes zines what they are and what makes them so great is the total freedom not afforded to, but taken by the zinesters. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 97

Categorization

• DEFINE: Articulates the structural difference between self-hosted print zines and platform-dependent blogs — a key concept in creator/platform power asymmetry.
• XREF: Echoes the platform-vs-creator power dynamics central to modern creator-economy critique; connects to Andrejevic and algorithmic control debates. — connects to: Zinester freedom was seized, not granted, and blogs lost that autonomy — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 97
• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to the graft/creator-infrastructure framing — the material substrate (who hosts, who can pull the plug) shape what content survives.