Very well said. Unfortunately, you might have a hard time convincing an entrepreneurial, individualistic crowd of how this dynamic works, as I'm sure I don't r

Very well said. Unfortunately, you might have a hard time convincing an entrepreneurial, individualistic crowd of how this dynamic works, as I'm sure I don't really need to tell you. It's a libertarian constituency given to see life as a succession of fairly hermetic, individual choices and more readily given to accept that the economic game is a fundamentally functional, if imperfect meritocracy. It would undermine a great deal of the narrative of this whole startup scene mythos into which we are all supposed to be buying here to draw vast attention to examples like the self-perpetuating character of poverty (as a generalisation, not an exception-less rule), and with it, insinuations about the economic privilege commanded by American corporate entities to export de facto Internet-defining cultural impositions or expectations along with their products. The American capitalistic success story told to children here is dispositionally arrayed against allegations of a very close interplay between "politics" and "naked economics," for some reason. Plus, you're going to run up against the seeming consensus that to the degree that identifiably American values are actually "imposed" this way, far better those, with their historical indebtedness to Anglo-American liberal intellectual heritage and democratic ideas and whatnot, than, oh, some other cultures we could name. Anyway, it seems to me that fixating upon the issue of boobs or nudity on Facebook per se is missing the point. We can argue about the degree to which it is truly "oppressive," and pull Godwins by alluding to the experiences of German Jews in the 1930s all we want, but they're all "angels on the head of a pin" type sophistry. The most salient takeaway from the article is that we should be wary of economic disparities and resulting power relationships as they relate to the facts of intercultural transmission, dissemination and assimilation in the context of the Internet as a global medium but whose organisational components are anchored to particular cultures, governments, financiers, and institutions.