Facebook says it will build a "metaverse". (Or is that "made it worse"?) That buzzword is not very precise about its meaning, so if something does get built, we concretely know hardly anything about what it might do.

What rhymes with "meta"? "Data". That's what Facebook wants, and that's what we should refuse to give it. Don't be a zucker!

I won't prejudge it just because Facebook is doing it, but we must suspect it will mistreat its users. We should pose these questions about it:

• Do we get to control our actions and perceptions through free software?
• Can we be free from surveillance?
• Can we stop it from manipulating us?