@futurebird Totally agree. Back in 2008 I got into a debate with Clay Shirky at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference. At the time I was very optimistic about social networks possibilities to create change -- mybarackobama.com was hugely impactful, as was the One Million Strong for Barack Facebook group. His take was that they were going to shut it down ... and that's exactly what happened.
But the potential's still there! It's just a question of how to manifest it ... https://privacy.thenexus.today/p/62c875f9-db01-4a42-b10b-c9640ff2ba8a/