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Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web - Neustadt.fr

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We are quietly replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. We need to stop it.

I quit Facebook seven months ago. Despite its undeniable value, I think Facebook is at odds with the open web that I love and defend. This essay is my attempt to explain not only why I quit Facebook but why I believe we're slowly replacing a web that empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. And why we should, at the very least, stop and think about the consequences of that shift. The Web: Backstory (If you want, you can skip the backstory and jump directly to the table of contents ). I love the web. I don't mean that in the way that someone might say that they love pizza. For

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