> You think MZ's vision of replacing democratic institutions with facebook is a bad idea? Me too!
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> Let me point out to you all the ways that MZ's intentions are good. I guess he's really a nice guy and we should trust him to provide a replacement for a failing democracy.
Personally, I can't get behind it, no matter how nuanced the rhetorical strategy used to persuade me.
It seems to me that this battle was really lost several years ago when Google unsuccessfully tried to maintain the ability to "export your social graph" from FB. What's your feeling on how things would have played out differently if at that time FB lost its control over people's social graphs?
It seems to me that if you have to legislate a solution here, writing a law that guaranteed you could export your personal data from any company would be a good place to start. What do you think?
I'm sure other people really like it.