I love Tim Wu and God knows I relied on his work for my own PhD (on precisely that topic: Facebook monopolistic dominance) but his essay betrays exactly the con

I love Tim Wu and God knows I relied on his work for my own PhD (on precisely that topic: Facebook monopolistic dominance) but his essay betrays exactly the contradiction: - He starts by attacking Facebook to pursue growth > Facebook prioritized growth over any other possible goal - but, when offering a solution, he wants exactly the same thing for its proposed alternative: > the real challenge is gaining a critical mass of users. I’m not sure changing the name but not the presumed initial values will help. Bu then he writes: > for which users would pay a small fee Anyone old enough to remember the early days of Facebook will remember how Mark Z. had to defend against that idea: being locked-in a paid service was the worst that could happen. Tim Wu knows that. Actually, everyone who is not on Facebook should know that too because that rumour became such a problem for the company that it ended up occupying the most previous location on the service: the login page. > It's free and always will be.