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It is a terrible analogy all around. What is happening is that Facebook is shifting from being AOL 2.0 to being a government contractor. They'll eventually be
by __jal 9y ago
It is a terrible analogy all around.
What is happening is that Facebook is shifting from being AOL 2.0 to being a government contractor. They'll eventually be more entrenched and integrated (in the US) with the IRS, police, intelligence, etc.
The first step is to get them over a barrel, with public opinion against them. The rest is easy, and FB will embrace it.
- Top19 9y agolol the AOL 2.0 analogy. I will never forgive my parents for signing us up for AOL Broadband. What is AOL Broadband you wonder? Well you sign in to AOL just like you did with dial-up, the experience is almost the same so old people didn’t freak out, and then it drops you into AOL’s shitty shitty browser. Oh and it even blocked our other browser from ever working due to how the tunnels were configured (Internet Explorer), and you couldn’t use a wireless router with AOL Broadband in Texas until 2006 (ruining Xbox Live which was on the 2nd floor).