I was Zuckerberg’s speechwriter
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#2I don't see the problem. Now, "companies over people" is another.
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#3I thought his early motto was "Dumbfucks".
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#4The rise of nationalist populism, although something I still disagree quite contentiously with, really begins making more sense when opinions like this start leaking out.
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#5I feel like early FB culture had quite a few of the signs of a cult. Like legit, almost religious, cult.
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#6I wonder when Facebook would start incorporating some of the democratic processes in its decision making and potentially let users elect 'directors' to oversee some of the decision making. I guess never. I don't think capitalism and social media, that would be good for the society, cannot go together.
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#7Quote from the article:
Cambridge Analytica is a scandal that isn’t a scandal: Everyone who has ever worked on or with the Facebook platform knew that for several years, the platform made data available to third-party developers by design.
Why is this news and a problem now? What made the sky fall? If everyone knew, then why has someone been picked to be the bad guy now?
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#8Title is a little clickbaity, but it still stands that FB is some deep shit right now. Zuckerberg's child like competitiveness, coupled with silicon valleys hyper capatalist nature has created a serious problem for current and future generations...
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#9I thought his early motto was "Dumbfucks".
I was hoping that a congressman would ask Zuckerberg if he still viewed his users this way. I'm sure he had a well-prepared response to this exact question, just in case.
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#10Quote from the article: Cambridge Analytica is a scandal that isn’t a scandal: Everyone who has ever worked on or with the Facebook platform knew that for several years, the platform made data available to third-party developers by design. Why is this news and a problem now? What made the sky fall? If everyone knew, then why has someone been picked to be the bad guy now ?
Reducing this problem to tribalistic "oh u mad because trump won!!" is infantile and absurdly counterproductive.
Which is of course why its brought up so much...