His rhetoric seems very similar to all the 90’s idealism around the internet democratizing information, bringing power to the people, etc. Except Zuck actually made it happen. And, gee, whaddya know, that power was all fine and good in the hands of nerds like our favorite boingboing bloggers, but when we ACTUALLY democratize it and give anybody with a facebook account the ability to amplify information that they “like” to their (generally like-minded) “friends,” we end up with ethnic violence and a resurgence of Nazis and antivaxxers alongside our lolcats and other wonderful things. Paging Alexander Hamilton…
But I think what really rubs us wrong about Zuck is not so much that he unleashed this beast on the rest of the world. It’s that he still holds the friggin’ leash himself, but seems unwilling (not just unable) to prioritize the actual good of the world over his company’s profit growth.
