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by Zikes 4318 days ago
There will come a day when the proverbial walled garden becomes a literal walled garden, and we'll all get to say "we told you so!"

It won't be particularly satisfying, but in that dystopian near-future, it will be one of life's few remaining pleasures.

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> "It won't be particularly satisfying, but in that dystopian near-future, it will be one of life's few remaining pleasures."

[expression of cynicism detected]

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[querying for user's linguistic analysis based on previous communication]

[synthesizing praise for walled garden using user's linguistic profile]

[deliver praise to recipient instead of ungood sentiment]

Seriously though, we're already filtering Facebook posts based on "relevance". We're a really, really thin line away from silencing posts based on the sentiments expressed within.

Filtering based on sentiment? Oh, they're way ahead of you there: http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/30/technology/social/facebook-e...
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