The slick-looking social network promised free speech, privacy, and better handling of user content. It’s been offline for over a month.

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It’s increasingly difficult to see Facebook as anything close to resembling a positive for society.

Sites like Facebook and Google exert massive control over what we read and see. Maybe it’s time to start bypassing them.

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So-called frictionless sharing risks making Facebook statuses less trustworthy.