Begging Mark Zuckerberg to personally rid the world of misinformation is a fundamentally authoritarian impulse.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-21/mark-zuckerberg-s-political-awakening …
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Replying to @mtracey
But so is crying out for government to step in and make social media platforms public utilities.
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Replying to @dannyrotch
Not really. "Crying out" for that solution would entail rescinding power from Zuckerberg, not empowering him even further.
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Replying to @mtracey
All you're doing is transferring that power to unaccountable bureaucrats. It's shit either way.
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Replying to @dannyrotch
Government bureaucrats are public employees and therefore ultimately accountable to the public. Corporate bureaucrats are not.
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