Clearly this isn't popular here but I stand by it. The Internet and everything about it is the new printed word, book, newspaper, radio and tv. And so organizations will try to control every aspect of it. If Orwell rewrote 1984 as 2084 I'm sure there would be a few lines about how the Protect Information Everywhere Act of 2020 outlawed end user content modification by outlawing programs like greasemonkey. Doubleplus ungood indeed.
I’m sure most people support your sentiments, but self-conciously shoe horning Niemöller & Orwell into your arguments like that comes across a bit over the top.
Tone it down, less preaching more conversational. You’ll get a better response and promote better discussions.
Retract the fangs, mate. You're not the guy at Facebook pulling the trigger on these decisions, are you? Yes, yes, it's just a script, duh. I just like to move the pieces on the board a few steps at a time. I like to follow the "Don't sweat the small stuff" philosophy as much as anybody but the slope is slippery and someones gotta say "Hell no."
True, most organizations (and people) react badly if you disrupt their illusion of total control over things. On the other hand, the newspaper industry has been the most visible recent example of a complete failure to control, or even monetize, online assets. I generally get the feeling that it's more of a "let's see what we can do with this and get away with" kind of thing or a case of ruffled feathers than a direct attempt to squash individual freedoms. This is particularly so in Facebook's case, which you are certainly under no obligation to use for enjoyment of the broader internet.
