People always view what they do in positive light and view what other people do in more negative light.

Banning stuff is way easier in 2020 than it was in the early 2000s or late 1990s when China started building the great firewall because of app stores ... If there is a point of centralization, that means there's a very easy and obvious place for governments to put their foot down.

The classified ads in newspapers—they were the Facebook of the 20th century, especially the second half of the 20th century in terms of just being able to mint money at a local level.

Your phone number has evolved from not being a phone number to being an ID.