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Did he just proclaim the Facebook Global Government?

• denom 10y ago
  As Lessig said, the code is law. Given facebook's role, undoubtedly they will (and do) play a role in governance.
  • return0 10y ago
    Facebook could upend the world order if they built elections into their platform. I mean who 's gonna delegitimize a government elected online by massive audience? People would create new countries
    • JBReefer 10y ago
      I really don't believe that's realistic, and if you think that it's possible I would encourage you to broaden your social groups. The idea of a private company holding an election to choose my representatives is completely unacceptable - much less the concept that it would be global and not tied to the places I care about. People go to war over that kind of thing.
• danielcampos93 10y ago
  I for one welcome our new overlords. It not like anything bad ever came from centralizing everything and providing ways for governments to access information of individual groups with ease. Also everyone with a little distributed systems experience knows the best policy is just one enormous server, why not an enormous company?