The police are a way for us to delegate our self-defense to a third party, the state. We give the police a certain level of authority in return for (hopefully) safety.
In your metaphor you're suggesting, "don't protect yourself, you already delegated that responsibility".
Censoring speech on the internet is exactly the same delegation of responsibility. "Don't protect yourself, delegate that responsibility to the censors".
Your metaphor is making the opposite point that you're intending.
The twitter app literally has the same tipping over bitcoin/lightning functionality built in. Also there is zero way to paywall content (or anything) within the Damus app. Literally just (the) tips. Apple and Will have a call this afternoon to discuss - hopefully logic prevails.
Seems like a direct implementation of how Nostr handles verification. Nip-05 describes how it's done and is successfully implemented in most Nostr clients: