* <<FCK.0839>> "Social" media

- As long as publishing / communication are mediated by profit-driven
corporations, and as long as those corporations are unfettered by any
privacy or censorship laws, there can be no freedom of expression
online.
- Social media is a product produced by its own consumers, but
mediated (formatted, packaged, published, someteimes redacted) and
monetized by service providers.
- Social media services (Facebook, et al) ...
- Metaphors are difficult – if the internet is the infrastructure,
the "roads", then what are applications/services?  Courier/post
services combined with warehouse facilities, I suppose.  USPS and
Iron Mountain rolled into one.  Actually... no.  More like Western
Union and Iron Mountain – Facebook doesn't drive any trucks, so to
speak.  It's more like a telegraph-and-warehouse service.

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