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I think this is the (American) white privilege bubble at work, in a different way than usual. Drug use is pervasive in American society, everyone knows this an
by natechols 7y ago
I think this is the (American) white privilege bubble at work, in a different way than usual. Drug use is pervasive in American society, everyone knows this and it's an obvious thing for Facebook to police. Same with violence, racist abuse, and pornographic images. Buying and selling domestic workers, on the other hand, is so far removed from our experience that it's not something that I would have even thought to work on. I know human trafficking happens, in the abstract sense that I read about it in The Economist or The Atlantic magazines, but the idea that people would take advantage of social media platforms to do it still blows my mind.
- modwest 7y agoWhat blows my mind about what you're describing is how ill-equipped society was for Facebook, and how laughable it is that Mark Zuckerberg is in charge of reconciling Facebook and society, for the very reasons you're talking about. When I think about the global scale and social/political/economic scope required to responsibly run Facebook, and compare that to the skill set of Mark Zuckerberg it's just, like, insane that he's in charge of it. I'm sure Mark Zuckerberg is truly brilliant and capable of becoming a great international leader. No doubt. I just don't think it should be, like, his first job. Lol. It's truly absurd.
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- segmondy 7y agoCan you tell us who you know that will be best in charge to run it. Give us 3 names.
- modwest 7y agoCan you just make your point please
- snagglegaggle 7y agoThat is his point. Who is qualified? It'd probably have to be many people, but then who are they accountable to? Is it really better to have Facebook be government run? I highly doubt it.
- modwest 7y agoI don't know the answer and won't bore you by trying to make one up on the fly. I'll just say this is a novel challenge to human society and requires a novel approach to corporate governance & accountability. What we're doing now isn't working and the stakes are as high as they can be. We have the responsibility to insist on better from our institutions.
- ceejayoz 7y agoMaybe no one should have that level of power.
- natechols 7y agoYou could simply replace "Facebook" with "the Internet", or just "electronic communication networks". If our reaction to every new technological advance is either 1) "let's wait until society is ready for it", or 2) "this should be strictly controlled by the government", we'd still be banging rocks together to make fire. Zuckerberg is certainly ill-equipped for this. So is every other person on the planet, but at least Zuckerberg has enormous financial and public relations incentives to figure it out. I do not envy his job.