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Stephen Downes

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I think that what bothers me most about Facebook and the others is not so much the vileness that they expose as it is the fact that they are monetising it. Here are some wise words from Alan Levine: "the thing about ugliness of online spaces... do not underestimate that the stuff you are not reading in comments as just the tip of the suppressed rage/violence in people we share the non-online world with. Don't read the comments, but be aware of them, do not ignore what they indicate about society. Do not pretend what lies beneath them doesn't exist." We should be correcting for this, not ussng it as the core feature of our business model.

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