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Re:Solomon Islands set to ban Facebook in the name of 'natio... by pjc50 on Monday November 23, 2020 @12:10PM (#25188952)
This is pretty much it. We saw from the Arab Spring that Twitter can start a revolution. Whether you need it or not, whether it improves matters or not. Everyone claims to be some sort of insurgent now.

> true - or false - doesn't matter

I happen to think this matters rather a lot, but not everybody agrees.

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Re:Solomon Islands set to ban Facebook in the name of 'natio... by Juliate on Monday November 23, 2020 @12:28PM (#25189165)
It does not matter in the sense that it does create fertile ground for disruption by enabling bubbles of people to form and ostracize each other.

It does matter in the sense that what is built on lies, besides being immoral, is unproductive, as it will always come back to bite everyone.

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