Mark Zuckerberg Is the Most Powerful Unelected Man in America
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#2I'm certain there are unelected people with much more influence, but they don't get as much publicity.
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#3I'm certain there are unelected people with much more influence, but they don't get as much publicity.
Robert Mercer and Peter Thiel seem like obvious examples but there must be dozens more.
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#4I'm certain there are unelected people with much more influence, but they don't get as much publicity.
Robert Mercer and Peter Thiel seem like obvious examples but there must be dozens more.
All three infuriate me (and Mercer, even more than Zuckerberg) but Facebook is possibly the most powerful entity in the world. Regardless of whether you believe it already has, Facebook has the power to topple governments, if it chose to wield it.
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#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Robert Mercer and Peter Thiel seem like obvious examples but there must be dozens more.
All three infuriate me (and Mercer, even more than Zuckerberg) but Facebook is possibly the most powerful entity in the world. Regardless of whether you believe it already has, Facebook has the power to topple governments, if it chose to wield it.
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg Is the Most Powerful Unelected Man in America
#6Nah, a bit dramatic I would say. Anyway to the extent people see Facebook, Bannon, Trump, and the like powerful I think is because they do so in a power vacuum. Congress both in its institutional action and a lot of inaction over the last six or so administrations has left so many problems to grow and grow putrid.