>I thought that the Internet was the greatest empowerment of free speech in history. It is, but facebook is not. The empowerment of the internet is that you ca

>I thought that the Internet was the greatest empowerment of free speech in history. It is, but facebook is not. The empowerment of the internet is that you can publish a website saying something and no one can stop you[1]. However, if you publish via facebook, you give an additional (and unregulated) party control over your publishing. Basically, you should stop doing that. Even if you're not willing to host your own services[2], there's a lot of benefit in spreading your publishing between multiple providers, preferably smaller ones, so that a decision from one person cannot muzzle you. [1] This is not quite true, a government order can get you disconnected from your ISP. However, removal of a DNS entry does not in fact stop you from publishing, and enormous tracts of the web are made up if sites that can only be accessed by IP address. [2] Which you totally should, especially for the easy stuff like file syncing