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FTA: "Where Mark asks you to trust him to be a benevolent king, I say let us build a world without kings." I'd also submit that even if you trust Zuckerberg to
by MrZongle2 10y ago
FTA: "Where Mark asks you to trust him to be a benevolent king, I say let us build a world without kings."
I'd also submit that even if you trust Zuckerberg to be a benevolent king, he won't be king forever. He may grow bored of Facebook and move on, have an untimely accident or a poor diagnosis...these are all events that can put all things Facebook in the hands of somebody far less (presumably) benevolent.
Imagine it in the hands of a Larry Ellison. Or Martin Shkreli. Or Keith Alexander. Or Dick Cheney, if you will.
- hourislate 10y agoAll those you listed are Saints compared to Mark who is one of the most dangerous men in the world. facebook needs to be torn down. It is a toxic apparatus, being used against the population. Just saying.
- Ygg2 10y agoI think you are overreacting. Mark is just the last incarnation of people that scratched the social itch. If Facebook failed, we'd still have G+ or MySpace. At this point, he seems like an inevitability.
- MrZongle2 10y agoWell, don't count me among those who trust Zuck. I stopped using Facebook years ago when I opened my eyes to what a massive intelligence-gathering operation it is. And the names I listed are just examples; my point remains that one cannot predict who will hold the reins in the future. We can debate how much of a monster Zuckerberg may be, but I'm convinced that there can be somebody much worse in charge. I think the most productive thing most of us can do in the short term is to convince everyone we know to stop using that platform.