Facebook: Eden with serpents

Facebook is a global ecosystem, linking everyone and everything instantaneously, directly, without checks, without mediators, without end. In just a few years, this virtual space became the home of 2 billion people, who express their hopes, fears, wishes and accomplishments in it, who praise and vilify each other, who communicate nonstop. It is where many store their most valuable memories, photographs and texts. It is a free and boundless market of ideas and a platform for prejudice, where everything flows in every direction - from adolescent dreams to the darkest crimes and the most dangerous propaganda.

Now it emerges that this walled Garden of Eden did not exist to serve those who had moved into it of their own free will; on the contrary, it was we - the huge number of consumers and voters - who had become the product, the property of the company. Facebook's power is...