@rms over fourty years ago started warning that software should not have owners, because non-free software leads to non-free humans.
@pluralistic gave us a term for the degradation of the digital commons we've all experienced over the past two decades.
And I think they add up to: social networks should not have owners. They need to be public property because non-free social networks leads to non-free humans.
PS. and I am certainly not the first person to think this, I'm just expressing my understanding of what smarter people than me have explained many times.
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