The article is as stupid as the website it&#x27;s on is. Value-added sharing mechanisms that take the expertise out of creating useful Internet content does not de-democratize the Internet. You are still as free as before to make your own websites and share your content the way it was done before Facebook. Facebook is popular but that can&#x27;t be held against it.<p>More generally, populism by itself does not threaten democracy. It&#x27;s when the people that elect demagogues let those demagogues destroy public institutions that democracy is undermined. But it&#x27;s the people that are at fault here, they are the ones that let themselves get hoodwinked.<p>Napoleon destroyed the French Republic. But the French were absolutely complicit and just let him do it because they were hungry for empire. All of Europe was like that back then and she wasn&#x27;t cured of that disease until WW2 showed them how utterly stupid warmongering in the Industrial age was.