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Do you realize how easy it is to set up a facebook page, wordpress or blogger blog? Tons of non-technical people have done and continue to do this. This isn't about your average HN reader but the general public and they're competent enough to do these things by themselves, which has already been proven.

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I did not realize you can monetize a facebook page.

You seem to be stuck on the idea that it's about money, and it's not.

My entire argument isn't that it can be monetized easily (https://www.facebook.com/help/publisher/321041698514182 it can) but that there are dozens of EASY ways to publish things and do so freely.

It's literally dead simple.

Now you're claiming that monetization has nothing to do with money. Ridiculous.

If you make monetization hard, people will freely share their works. If you make it easy, they will monetize them. Monetizing is easier than it used to be, stopping people from sharing freely. That shouldn't be hard to understand.

No, go back and read my comments again. Stop debating something I didn't bring up and trying to push an irrelevant point of view.

anoncake presented a relevant related argument, that's kind of what people do on discussion sites.

No, they didn't. There is nothing preventing someone from easily sharing content in spite of how "easy" it is to monetize it.

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