“Online births and deaths in Facebook Nation made me question why people could not live without borders. Birthright citizenship is like being baptized into a religion as an infant. Taking a page from Veronica Roth’s novel Divergent, people should be free to choose where they belong when they grow up.”

—  Newton Lee

Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014

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