&gt; And nobody will read them if you don&#x27;t integrate with Facebook and other social media--where you will be censored.<p>That&#x27;s not an issue with Facebook, it&#x27;s the natural consequence of being popular. Things are popular because the public likes them. You can&#x27;t say that something being powerful because the public made them powerful is undemocratic. Either you&#x27;re giving the public what they want or you&#x27;re not. Dethroning Facebook would be profoundly <i>un</i>democratic. Facebook is a public institution, albeit under private management.<p>&gt; Did you really claim that scam victims are to blame when they get scammed, and not the scammers?<p>The people are bigger than the politicians. Politicians have to, at some point, give the people what they want. The days where you can brutally put down rebellions is over. Not even CCP can get away with it. Napoleon could not have given Europe war if the French truly didn&#x27;t want war.<p>Napoleon did not have to scam the French, they went into it willingly.<p>Democracy is the progressive march of what most people want over what a few people want. If what most people want is stupid, democracy will not save you from that.