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The ‘you’ in this case is not the abstract you or the specific me, it’s the people who do or don’t comprise the community, and this is the key difference I finally understood. The right to stewardship of a virtual community is entirely internal. This is the scary thing kids understand instinctively that people my age struggle to apprehend, maybe: the transfer of the whole concept of identity into self-determination.

— Glenn McDonald

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