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Great essay. I missed only one point: why he used Brazil as a succesful example of internet use? Facebook, Google & Twitter sponsored a mob that finished with a coup d'etat here. We are far from being a good example, I think we are the worse and what happened here is been exported to other countries right now.

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Sorry, but there are a lot of disagreement about your "coup d'etat". A portion of the population, me included, don't see it as a coup, as the deposition of the president followed, and is following, the law. I don't think here is the place to have this kind of discussion, but I just wanted to make it clear that that are opposing ideas on this...

Regardless, I think that social media in general was key to some very important social movements here, but you won't agree with my examples :). But I agree it wasn't clear what he was referring to in case of Brazil.

Even if "coup" is the wrong word for it doesn't mean it was all kosher: https://theintercept.com/2016/06/30/major-new-brazil-events-...

What the hell are you talking about? You may even think there was a coup d'etat here in Brazil, even though the Supreme Court and the media in general disagree. I won't challenge you in this point, as I don't think this is a topic to be discussed here in HN.

However, your affirmation that Facebook, Google and Twitter sponsored this coup is quite bizarre. Care to give any source in this?

I have no information on the Facebook/Google/Twitter involvement, but I can share this video, perhaps you'll find it interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXuxZXMzSNY

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