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by zo1 1721 days ago
I think we let them get too big and now the discussion will very much revolve around the capital, value, industries and "jobs" that will be affected by a FB or social media ban or some other legislation.

You can't even effectively "mobilize" the populace for some sort of popular movement against social media because most of that sort of thing these days can only happen on social media. It's not even like we can have a revolution with 50k people and storm FB headquarters and "physically" stop the behemoth. It's headless for the most part. And good luck getting 50k people even. Pretty much All the platforms will stop you before you get anywhere because of "threats of violence".