Yes, the NSA set fire to the Internet but it’s the business models of Google, Facebook, etc., that provide the firewood.
@wildebees That’s a rather colonial perspective. Developing countries can (& do) build/support their own solutions.
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@aral ties stretch across borders. And no not many countries have the engineers and UX skills to build a Facebook -
@wildebees We shouldn't even be aspiring to build a Facebook. Facebook is the failure of the promise of the web. -
@aral the web is out about people, in that sense Facebook is less of a failure then many other sites.
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@aral even Germany struggles with the latterThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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