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Facebook has a very big walled garden that will be protected and monetized. Go and ask to all your hoa members or old classmates for example to move to discord


Exactly, Facebook has built a huge garden, and to extend the walled garden metaphor… the garden is now so big it crossed the line beyond which, we as a society, agree that you aren’t allowed to put up certain kinds of walls.

If that sounds like a bad analogy, imagine how the government would treat a single private company that owned more than 70% of the private land in the country. “It’s our gland we should be able to do what we want…” has to break down at a certain point, the alternative is a slow relentless slide into crypto-capitalist (crypto like cryptozoology not cryptocurrency) dystopian oppression.




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