Free could be part of the problem but it’s not enough to qualify a cause compared to other online companies. I would say the greater problem is centralization.

Free could be part of the problem but it’s not enough to qualify a cause compared to other online companies. I would say the greater problem is centralization. If user content did not go through Facebook servers, for example if Facebook were only a client application, this problems and concerns would not exist regardless of profit motive or free access.