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A number of high-profile web industry leaders have quit Facebook this week, a turn of events that’s sure to heat up conversation about the social network’s perceived transgressions. Tonight leading video podcaster Leo Laporte announced that he’s closed his Facebook account and made a financial donation in support of Diaspora , a project working to create an alternative social network outside of Facebook’s control. Laporte said he was convinced to make the move by a post written by entrepreneur Jason Calacanis , in which Calacanis called Facebook a “monster” and called for users to throw their support behind OpenID and advocates of distributed social networking as open as the internet

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