honestly i feel kinda bad for zuck and jack. you start out dicking around with a website that lets people talk to other people a lot and 15 years later your website has metastasized into the social fabric so much you have more power than most world leaders in some ways
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i imagine they can’t easily stop either. they started this ball rolling and now it’s their responsibility. they’re attached to it in a million different ways. they’re like that final boss who merged with their horrific creation for the second stage of the boss fight
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i suspect it's more like the power holds them y'know? you summon a demon and it possesses you kind of deal
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Just enabling people to talk to other people didn't do this, though — take WhatsApp for instance — and besides, they did it to themselves, by virtue of being greedy morons. Do they even take up their societal responsibility anyway? Do they acknowledge their leadership? No.
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On the one hand, sure. On the other hand,
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Facebook: "Oh yeah? Well... Uh... That child porn you found on our site is technically now in your possession, so we're calling the cops on you."
BBC: "We're the BBC. No one is going to believe..."
Facebook: "Hello, police?"
Yes, this really happened: wired.co.uk/article/facebo
