I was thinking the same thing, especially since I am one of the few people on the planet not on FB.
While it is not the same text, Harold's DW post on the topic certainly has the same underlying sentiment. And some of the useful historical background.
Argh, doggone FB ... Gary, thanks for the DW link that I had somehow missed. I'm pretty sure that once upon a time, public posts on FB were world-visible but apparently now you have to be logged in even if the post is public. (I just tried it and got exactly the post+comments I expected, but I'm logged in.) Recently, they also did something that makes it impossible to select text on the screen to copy (and causes print-to-PDF to fail on my PowerBook), so to copy/paste I resort to using the "view source" window. Facebook seems intent on breaking basic elements of how the web was designed to work. (Also interesting -- in another browser I just tried forcing the desktop site instead of the mobile version (which i get because my browser "is too old", and I get a "page not available".) I guess FB is the wrong place to put anything interesting that anyone might want to be able to get back to. :-( But alas, people keep using it.
Anyhow, thanks for the heads-up, both of you. I'm not sure how to fix this other than copying everything to another site and republishing it, but that's a very different act from just quoting a bit. (If anybody else comes along and sees this and knows how to create reliable links to FB content, let me know, eh?)
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While it is not the same text, Harold's DW post on the topic certainly has the same underlying sentiment. And some of the useful historical background.
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Anyhow, thanks for the heads-up, both of you. I'm not sure how to fix this other than copying everything to another site and republishing it, but that's a very different act from just quoting a bit. (If anybody else comes along and sees this and knows how to create reliable links to FB content, let me know, eh?)