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Re:U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison R... by gbersac on Thursday March 07, 2019 @10:08AM (#19328576)
Internet could not be as free as it is without advertising. Facebook and Google need to gain money so that we could use them for free.
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Re:U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison R... by JohnFen on Thursday March 07, 2019 @01:52PM (#19330926)
> Internet could not be as free as it is without advertising.

I don't think that's true. That's true for certain things, like Facebook and Google, but those sorts of companies do not constitute "the internet".

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