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Re: Zuckerberg in Lagos Land

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Call him "Zuck" as many times as you like, show him in hoodies, or in Africa... that's one man who's far too much of a known quantity for anyone with half a brain to buy the spin.

This isn't a very helpful comment. You are signaling that you know something important about him, and that I am stupid for not knowing what you're talking about, but that's about it. Please be more specific.

Re: Zuckerberg in Lagos Land

#23
post #10

Call him "Zuck" as many times as you like, show him in hoodies, or in Africa... that's one man who's far too much of a known quantity for anyone with half a brain to buy the spin.

This isn't a very helpful comment. You are signaling that you know something important about him, and that I am stupid for not knowing what you're talking about, but that's about it. Please be more specific.

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Re: Zuckerberg in Lagos Land

#24
post #10

Call him "Zuck" as many times as you like, show him in hoodies, or in Africa... that's one man who's far too much of a known quantity for anyone with half a brain to buy the spin.

This isn't a very helpful comment. You are signaling that you know something important about him, and that I am stupid for not knowing what you're talking about, but that's about it. Please be more specific.

That you decided to take my comment, directed at no one and certainly not some random person I've never spoken to in my life, as an indictment of your intelligence is surely not my problem, nor is it what I wrote.

Re: Zuckerberg in Lagos Land

#25
post #19
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I saw your comment before reading the article and, I get it. There's a cynic in me too. However, after reading the article, I'm thinking, who cares? I'm a sucker for a story about potential, especially in the underdog, and the parts jumping out at me are all about the potential of the people in Nigeria. I somehow ended up following Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, but it's Twitter so the picture I get is very incomplete. To read t…

I don't mind Zuckerberg going to Nigeria. I don't even mind the fluffiness of the article. But the whole narrative of Silicon Valley saving the world by showing up, is getting old. Zuckerberg isn't going to go home again and be like "You know what? We need to deploy ipv6, bring computer science curriculum's closer to the real world, have a fundamental programming language that lives up to the requirements of today, f…

It's an effective way to generate positive spin... hell the "on site guidance" has been the major theme the Kims have used for three generations in North Korea. It's a way to appear generous, helpful, and subtly signal your indispensability at the same time.

Re: Zuckerberg in Lagos Land

#26
Lets not kid ourselves, he is there for Free Basics & that shit. I am not against Free Basics, a Company should be free to offer whatever they want, but that also seems like a very cruel plan to offer poor people with shitty internet.

Remember the time when he was in India for a week or even a month, but then India decided not to allow Free Basics, and now he's doing the same with Nigeria, which is soon going to be 3rd most populous country.

Re: Zuckerberg in Lagos Land

#27
post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This isn't a very helpful comment. You are signaling that you know something important about him, and that I am stupid for not knowing what you're talking about, but that's about it. Please be more specific.

That you decided to take my comment, directed at no one and certainly not some random person I've never spoken to in my life, as an indictment of your intelligence is surely not my problem, nor is it what I wrote.

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Re: Zuckerberg in Lagos Land

#28
post #10

Call him "Zuck" as many times as you like, show him in hoodies, or in Africa... that's one man who's far too much of a known quantity for anyone with half a brain to buy the spin.

This isn't a very helpful comment. You are signaling that you know something important about him, and that I am stupid for not knowing what you're talking about, but that's about it. Please be more specific.

You wrote that no one with half a brain would buy the spin. Since I bought the spin, you are implying that I have less than half a brain. That is another way of saying I'm stupid.

How is that not what you wrote?

And your comment was not "directed at no one". You addressed quite a lot of people "people with half a brain", "people without half a brain", "people who bought the spin", "people who didn't buy the spin", and the author.

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