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Idk, this feels like a tough argument to defend. People still had all those things before Facebook found ways to monetize them. You would have to argue that the interface and its convenience itself of Facebook is more positive than its countless externalities. Not to mention the fact we can imagine, ceteris paribus, another kind of Facebook with a less predatory model that would have let people make the same amount of art, express themselves the same, etc.



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