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LINK: “From USENET to Facebook: The second time as farce”

Facebook repeats the pattern of USENET, this time as farce. As a no-holds-barred Wild West sort of social network, USENET was filled with everything we rightly complain about today. Original:

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  • April 17, 2018

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