“Citizens must learn to weigh their words very carefully. That’s a way of teaching them to weigh their very thoughts carefully, internally policing themselves, lest external social-justice police have to be called in. We are told to accept this new, constrained view of free expression because only “bad” thoughts will be suppressed " http://beforeitsnews.com/police-state/2016/03/facebook-launches-a-new-initia... And so, a "solution" is a new website, "seen.life": "it’s high time you readied yourself to switch over to Seen.life. It is a fairly new site that is similar to Facebook but without all the censorship crap. Here are some of the differences you’ll find at Seen.Life: No censorship! Keep in mind they do have a Terms of Service that will need to be followed for things like pornography, copyright violations and defamation. If they receive a complaint, they’ll investigate." No censorship at all. "NO ID required. Facebook is now asking certain people for their ID’s. That’s beyond the pale. You can use whatever name you’d like at Seen and no ID required." Until ID is considered useful for, IDK, perhaps account recovery... "They won’t sell your data, in fact they don’t even collect it (other than your email so you can receive notifications). " Because compulsory email address is part of privacy, see. And about data collection - they have this little thing called a "ucantrustus", although I'm not sure what it's supposed to mean - some sort of talisman I think. "No limit to your account’s friends. If you’re popular enough to get over 5,000 friends, we think that’s great! More power to you!" We --definitely-- need an alternative global relationships map db since Facebook might be seen to be a little tainted. Heave a sigh of relief since this site is still centralised, so it'll fill the gap nicely once FB becomes so hot even sheep start to take notice... "Private and secure chat rooms! These are strongly encrypted and there’s no snooping." They left out one import thing here - "Military grade encryption." because sheep need military protection!! "With the way Facebook is headed it’s not going to be a place you want to stay. Sign up and create an account at Seen.Life and get away from this invasive censorship!" Since here at new site (please join), our censorship is currently minimal (please join), we currently promise to not collect any^B[damn, we're already collecting some] "too much" data (please join), we won't require you to refine your personal network graph for us by limiting your friend count at least for the time being (please join), and we use military grade encryption so you are SAFE. Don't even think about being NOT SAFE, since we use MILITARY GRADE ENCRYPTION that's so powerful even the military could not crack it, until you get to the chat room, and unless they grab a sub key from one of our many friendly certificate providers (please join). By the way, please join. I guess they thought they were using some sophisticated marketing... at least they're not using any free libre open source software (that they're admitting) - Facebook uses PHP so that must be bad, well it probably is but anyway...