No.
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS pretty much invented the web. He put up the first site and page on 8/6/1991. It is still there (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html).
In those early days, sites that ran web servers allowed users to put up their own information, files, programs, etc. to share. Users controlled their information. Before the web, there were gopher, ftp, and nfs (file shares spanning the network) services.
So imagine an app to replace Facebook, or even the Free Republic. The app may be free (for the Free Republic) or paid for (the Facebook Replacement). Rather than all your postings and data being on servers or data centers that you have no control over, that information is in a "pod" that belongs to you. Obviously, you'd have to pay for that "pod" but it's yours to do with as you please. Multiple apps could use your "pod." You can develop or acquire apps to put in your "pod" and you control access to those apps.
The first thing I put up onto the web was an audio file of me pronouncing my last name. That was in 1994 or so.
Ok - so you have a pod that contains your data. That you control. Only POD compliant apps can use this data store. (Which you control).
I do like the concept, but it is a partial solution.
FB/Google will never go for this as it would break their business model.
The Pod model may start slow but then grow with time. Perhaps it will hit critical mass at some point (Network effect).
We had better do something as the writing is on the wall in terms of censorship. They have figured out that even with all their advantages they can’t compete in the market place of ideas...So now they just want to shut our side out of the debate.
Guess were really talking about 2 different problems. Free-Speech and Privacy. But they are both very important for our side to complete and to have a healthy Republic (notice I didn’t say democracy :^)
From what it looks like the Pods are free. And once businesses start taking off I think they will remain free. Businesses will be providing their own resources and servers so there is no real load or storage on someone else’s server. I think I would gladly donate back from my business to keep it free for my customers to come and see my wares.