https://medium.com/@maciekbaron/social-networks-should-be-publicly-owned-1d296b9432c7

Now, a headline like this might get a lot of eyes rolling and tech libertarians might use it to argue that “socialists have gone mad”. It is also not a new concept, and several arguments — some of them in jest — have been put forward to defend the idea of “nationalising Facebook”. However, I’d like to discuss some of them in a completely serious fashion, looking at the labour, profit and decision making aspects of social networks, and show why we need to demand a social network that belongs to the people, for the people.

Jen gets woken up in the morning by her phone’s alarm. She instantly unlocks it and opens Facebook. Even though her vision is still a tad blurry, she scrolls instinctively down her feed, stopping every now and again when her sleepy mind focuses on some interesting images. She checks one of her pages that she set up for funny and topical content, and notices that a meme she created last night has earned a lot of reactions.