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Facebook is a social network, not an oppressive regime.


There is no contradiction between those two terms. Nation states are social networks, too, and some of them are oppressive regimes. One risk factor for becoming oppressive is a concentration of power. Facebook concentrates a lot of power. The concentration of power is why people feel that they have no alternative.

Note: Analogies are analogies because they are analogous, not because they are an exact copy.




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