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Huh? Why would you blame your car or someone else's car for driving when someone slams into you from behind? You blame the brakes when they stop braking. The car when it stops driving. Don't blame the car when the people are at fault. It's hilarious seeing people blame Facebook as if it's some real person trying to trick everyone, when it fact it's just someone using the tool wrongly.. hint: you can use nearly every…
There's a large difference between vehicles, which are wholly owned by a consumer, and services. Running an open source news aggregator on my personal server is something I would own and be responsible for, similar to a fully owning a car. If I selected a ride share and the driver wrecks, then a company is responsible for my personal injury as well as the service I didn't receive. > When you start to blame things lik…
That contradicts your idea of "free personal news" to which can be attributed to one name. (HN/Facebook..)
Blame those that do, not those that allow to do. Selling knives could be made illegal if people chose to use them badly. This is not solving any problem.