On: Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match

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In this analogy would the internet be oxygen?

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There's actually a great analogy in the article:

> “We don’t completely blame Facebook,” said Harindra Dissanayake, a presidential adviser in Sri Lanka. “The germs are ours, but Facebook is the wind, you know?”

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It's more a vector carrier. A set of fuses leading to powderkegs.