I strongly agree with Alex Stamos on this—none of the solutions are easy, and we need to have a difficult conversation in some way that arrives at consensus, rather than posturing and polarization. But there's something Alex leaves out https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/974318426406641669 …
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Even the wisest person in the world could not cope with this level of responsibility, and Zuckerberg is not even on the wisdom leaderboard. The situation where a single website, controlled by a single person, makes life-and-death decisions affecting half the planet is not tenable
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We need this conversation to include a path to accountability, and an honest discussion of the externalities in Facebook's business model. The only people who have any power to give this conversation teeth are Facebook employees, who are unfortunately are complacent and complicit
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I believe that much of the anger and casting aspersions Alex refers to is because people recognize they have no voice in what Facebook does. They're not even customers. They're the raw materials in an attention economy being strip-minded for... well, what for, exactly?
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So what we're left with is a race between Facebook's ability to subvert the most basic institutions of our democracy, and that democracy's ability to regulate Facebook.
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