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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by stonogo on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:05PM (#23318328)
I'm complaining about the structure of the dialog around this issue, not casting aspersions on the parent post's argument itself. It's impossible to have a reasonable discussion when the terminology in use is strongly prejudiced against one of the key parties in the relationship.
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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by bhupy on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:20PM (#23318410)
Reality is strongly prejudiced against one of the key parties in the relationship. Users, today, tolerate ads in exchange for free content. Any reasonable discussion — where continued delivery of content is a desired end goal — needs to come up with an answer for how we pay for it. Calling out "fundamental flaws" is one such way of doing that.
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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by coffeecat on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:30PM (#23319098)
Stating things nakedly, using the assumptions and perspective of the big guy, can be a powerful rhetorical style when advocating for the little guy. See any of Chomsky's political writing as an example.
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