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>The whole article is a bad-faith farce, and should be treated as such. Ignore it. > >There are real points to be made about how the behavior of these companies might impact discourse, whether they have too much power, and more. However, this bad faith argument is a distraction from meaningful discourse.

I disagree that the article distracts from meaningful discourse. To the contrary, the article has elicited a great deal of meaningful discourse (in these HN threads) that helps us examine the role of social media in modern society.