Deleting your Facebook account to fight their takeover of the public sphere is like taking your house off the grid to fight global warming. It neither addresses the problem nor shields you from its consequences
Yes, you're allowed to do things that are stupid & unproductive, like the original "going off grid" analogy. Nobody's stopping you.
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The point is that there are effective paths to change that aren't about some imaginary moral high ground about your own actions.
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Stupid and unproductive as discussing difficult topics on Twitter I assume. I agree with the general message, but organizing is not as easy as retweeting
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