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by FredPret 1589 days ago
>I am also a liberal raised with a Western education.

Lucky you.

We need more Western education, not less, which is why fragmentation is a bad thing. My country of birth - in Africa - is aligned with the formerly communist nations; if they had to opt-in to a fragment, it wouldn't have been to the Western one. I might have never been able to emigrate.

Fragmentation seems like a leap backwards in time and a slap in the face of the promise inherent in the free flow of information.