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An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor

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Is it an ongoing investigation, or a multi-year, multi-campaign, full media all-hands-on-deck failed hatched job?

It’s an investigation by the common definition. You know Mueller is a Republican right? What do you think it is, can you expand?

In response to your last question, please reread my previous comment after the word "or".

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Unfortunately, I don't think your personal definition of the word is in step with common parlance, hence my comment. >Social justice warrior (SJW) is a pejorative term for an individual who promotes socially progressive views, including feminism, civil rights, and multiculturalism, as well as identity politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice_warrior If you continue to use it to mean, just, "a liberal,"…

Yes, I used the Wikipedia definition. Not sure what do you mean by "a liberal"

Because to me "individual who promotes socially progressive views" just means "liberal," while SJW is an actual pejorative.

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I understand this is a manifesto, but really the dialogue around Facebook and social media has truly become unhinged. Facebook is just a symptom, it seems What is there to be _done_? Pandora's box is open, so to speak. If Facebook disappeared overnight, are we really going to assume the problems they're in are going to go away? Everyone is potentially connected to everyone, everywhere, on the entire planet. There has…

"What is there to be done ?" A $0.01 tax per ad impression. Such a thing would not destroy the advertising industry, but it would do wonders for making it much less worthwhile to deploy massive surveillance technology to make .03 cents more per user per day, and leave only very high-value advertising behind. It would probably anti-decimate it or more, though (leave only 10% behind instead of destroying 10%). $0.10 pe…

Such a thing would not destroy the advertising industry

Then it's not enough.

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