10/ Last week, I argued that in letting new media be used this way, tech leaders failed the call to Arendtian action
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11/ I have an evolved view now. The problem of fake news and trolls is not actually solvable at the level of the media. It's the wrong locus
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12/ Trump played old AND new media equally because the old media abdicated responsibilities out of financial desperation of clickbait era.
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13/ But new media didn't so much abdicate responsibilities (and they had no financial pressure) as encounter technological limits
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14/ Politics needs to be reinvented for the digital age, transcending categories like "democracy", "monarchism", and "autocracy."
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15/ Look around. Who has experience dealing with such massive category-refactoring social dynamics at the scale of billions of humans?
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16/ There is literally only 1 person in US right now who qualifies: Zuckerberg. Other candidates haven't dealt with the scale/complexity
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17/ Sure he has his strengths and weaknesses, and has had his successes/failures, mis-steps and wins, but he has ONE key quality...
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18/ He not only gets the politics of digital modernity the way nobody else does, he fits within the OLD definition of "normal" decency
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19/ However disruptive his tech imagination and the way he entered global consciousness, as a human he represents continuity of humanism
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here is a fig leaf, is this like you're what kind of voice is yours tweet, a way to overton window your followers?
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I say what I say, you decide what it means to you :D
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Most important question IMO: does general public consider nerds sexy enough yet to elect one as president?
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no one has done more to violate privacy right that Zuck. A Zuck administration would be a technological panopticon.



