Couple of thoughts...

1) If I put my stories on ManyStories, and they're pulled in via iframe, those would be external reads. We only get paid for internal reads, so I don't see how that's a potential loss of income?

2) iframes use the bandwidth of the site hosting the actual content. So, if I put one of my stories on ManyStories and it gets 1000 views, the bandwidth for those 1000 views is being provided by Medium.

Remember when hosting companies didn't give unlimited bandwidth? More than once, I had to hunt down sites that were hotlinking my images because they were SUCKING my bandwidth and I had to pay the overage fees.

iframes work the same way. If you load Medium articles to ManyStories using iframes, that means Medium is providing the bandwidth for content loaded on your site.

That doesn't seem terribly fair to Medium. Why should they provide the bandwidth to load my content onto another site?

Honestly, I don't see how Medium is being tyrannical by not wanting to pay for the bandwidth to load content on a site that's not theirs. Am I missing something?