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> Not many years ago we as lauded the ability of social media to galvanise protest against tyrannical regimes (eg the Arab Springs).

We're pushing a decade from when these were now, and everything since then demonstrates malicious actors (be they state or private) quickly turned the tables and got the upper hand on the use of social media.

We need to stop holding up things that happened (and largely failed, but that's not the fault of social media) nearly a decade ago as evidence we shouldn't change things now. These networks are changing and developing fast, the Facebook of today is wildly different to the Facebook of 2011.

If the end result is Facebook is no longer an avenue for anyone to organise on, so be it. They've shown they're unable to properly moderate and handle that power.