Politics and tech mixing sounds bad for global shared tech.
Seems like tech or internet balkanization is coming fast.
Seems like tech or internet balkanization is coming fast.
Why might it be bad? Why might it be good?
There are so many factors. For one, I'd rather have someone in government who understands technology. So many parts of government are lacking in basic technical capability.
On the other hand, I find Facebook's awareness of the social fabric to be somewhere between inchoate (that's charitable) and a convenient illusion that is fundamentally mostly marketing-driven. (I don't fault a company for being market-driven; however, such incentives are not structured to properly serve people and communities).
But I don't know too much about Facebook's social design as compared to Zuck's goals for possibly serving in government or where he would like Facebook to go.
Tech companies controlled directly by us politicians will probably make this existing backlash worse.
I don't think you concerns about balkanization are unfounded by I'm curious why you have that concern in the context of this specific story. Can you elaborate?
Basically he wants to retain control of facebook while running for office, I cant imagine this go over well with certain other countries. Especially ones sensitive to nsa leaks, it would just have incredibly poor optics, and just increase the balkanization occuring already.