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Julian Assange and Mark Zuckerberg were two nerds on either side of the privacy spectrum in the twenty-teens. One was framed and tortured, the other was given
by jappgar 4mo ago
Julian Assange and Mark Zuckerberg were two nerds on either side of the privacy spectrum in the twenty-teens.
One was framed and tortured, the other was given an empire.
The message was received.
We now only have the Zuckerberg type.
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- OhioMan2943 4mo agoNym vpn and its community show the outside the system tech spirit still lives on
- tantalor 4mo ago> on either side of the privacy spectrum Oh how quickly we have forgotten: > We plan to build this the way we've developed WhatsApp: focus on the most fundamental and private use case -- messaging -- make it as secure as possible, and then build more ways for people to interact on top of that, including calls, video chats, groups, stories, businesses, payments, commerce, and ultimately a platform for many other kinds of private services. March 6 2019; https://web.archive.org/web/20190306191516/https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/a-privacy-focused-vision-for-social-networking/10156700570096634/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190306191516/https://www.faceb... Of course, none of that happened. But he did make a big fuss about it.
- ajam1507 4mo agoIf Julian Assange had taken his privacy principles and built a social network instead of leaking government secrets things might have turned out differently.
- dooglius 4mo agoI don't think Assange was overly concerned with privacy, transparency was more his wheelhouse.
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