Resaid: it's simple don't use those systems that censor you, and say face to face to the people who you are friends with that they are lame (or idiot, stupid or too smart ;)) to use those censoring platforms and that by using them they contribute to censorship and a lag in the deployment of modern, open sources, uncensorable softwares.
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Yeah, I advocate everybody does that.
I'm an activist and public figure who uses FB and other mainstream social media to educate people and encourage them to move to decentralized sources of news and communication.
On most of my Steem posts about FaceBook, I include a paragraph so I don't get comments like yours, but I didn't include it on this post. My bad. Here's some copypasta:
"They get what they deserve! Everybody knows FB is corrupt and censored. People should use sites like Steemit!"
Yes, I completely agree. And I see this statement all over the place, any time FaceBook gets negative press. I get it. But that's not seeing the whole picture here. FB has die-hards, and there are sheep in every crowd. Furthermore, FB is part of the deep state - the nonpublic inner workings of governmental agencies and elite insiders. They aren't going anywhere unless that decision is made from the top, and I don't mean Zuk. This isn't a free market where companies that screw up go bankrupt. This is a rigged game where supply and demand aren't allowed to act.
The reason I have a FB account? I've known it was a rigged game of censorship and surveillance since it started in 2006. I've used it to my advantage, while attempting to minimize the disadvantages I was aware of. Little of the revelations in the past year have shocked me. I continue to use the site, to reach the ignorant masses with my message. FB isn't my home base online - Steem is. Same with my 10-year channel promoting liberty on YouTube. I can't see a place of censorship and surveillance as my home base, ever. How could I? How can anyone?
Still, I know that some do, which is why I maintain a presence there. I constantly encourage FB users to leave the site, and to check out the Steem blockchain, and other decentralized forms of social media and news.