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I'll say it can keep saying it until the day people start realizing that it was real, Zuckerberg has expressed that he wants to replace the internet with Facebo

by wahsd 11y ago

I'll say it can keep saying it until the day people start realizing that it was real, Zuckerberg has expressed that he wants to replace the internet with Facebook, even if just in the vast majority of people's minds and thereby essentially atrophying and starving the open internet. He is a direct threat to the internet and freedom in general and that doesn't even consider the deliberate and cooperative relationship he has with the intelligence networks to create mass surveillance systems which each individual maintains a dossier about themselves on.

Jonanin 11y ago
Please cite a source for your comment that "Zuckerberg has expressed that he wants to replace the internet with Facebook". I highly, highly doubt it.
- sp332 11y ago
  There's the Internet.org thing, which billed itself as bringing the Internet to poor people but actually only had a few partner services available. So "the Internet" was replaced with "Facebook and partners". http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/04/facebooks-internet-org-sees-defections-over-alleged-harm-to-net-neutrality/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/04/facebooks-internet-o... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet.org
laotzu 11y ago
>Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly. -Marshall McLuhan
- pdkl95 11y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm-Jjvqu3U4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm-Jjvqu3U4 While Vihart is talking about youtube in this video, her discussion of Edmond Snow Carpenter's "They Became What They Beheld" is very relevant to this situation as well. (note: Marshall McLuhan may have written an early version the book) Too much medium, not enough message.

by wahsd 11y ago

Jonanin 11y ago

Please cite a source for your comment that "Zuckerberg has expressed that he wants to replace the internet with Facebook". I highly, highly doubt it.

sp332 11y ago
There's the Internet.org thing, which billed itself as bringing the Internet to poor people but actually only had a few partner services available. So "the Internet" was replaced with "Facebook and partners". http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/04/facebooks-internet-org-sees-defections-over-alleged-harm-to-net-neutrality/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/04/facebooks-internet-o... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet.org

laotzu 11y ago

>Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly. -Marshall McLuhan

pdkl95 11y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm-Jjvqu3U4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm-Jjvqu3U4 While Vihart is talking about youtube in this video, her discussion of Edmond Snow Carpenter's "They Became What They Beheld" is very relevant to this situation as well. (note: Marshall McLuhan may have written an early version the book) Too much medium, not enough message.