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Those projects failed because Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube have enormous network effects that make it nearly impossible to usurp them.

Have burger flippers at McDonalds really gotten 2x more productive since 1968? I highly doubt it. I would expect most low-skill labor has not gotten any more productive.

Also, commondreams.org is a known socialist website. Their claims on economic productivity should be taken with an enormous grain of salt.

Do you really think the Iranian government is going to subpoena twitter to acquire evidence that Iran committed war crimes and then prosecute themselves?

Citizen outrage is the only lever we have to prevent governments from committing war crimes. If you support blocking access to the public, you're essentially saying these governments should be allowed to commit war crimes.

Agreed. Accepting the bribe seems to be a worse offense than offering it. I'm not sure why the employees were not indicted.

Individuals are also free to sink as much of their resources into it as they want.

The fact of the matter is political conversations have high risk of annoying/frustrating/alienating their participants. To have these conversations at work is just making employees less productive and asking for a controversy.

You sound like an absolutely awful person to work with.