With this question: does Facebook have real competition? Nope. There is no real alternative to Facebook: no substantive competition, no real market discipline on the company. It's simple as that.
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Business interests vs. human interests. When history of all this is written, Myanmar will be a piece that won’t be ignored. Some of this *is* complex. That was an egregious shrugging of responsibility. They should have made it a giant priority in 2013.https://twitter.com/rafiqcopeland/status/983865814334849024 …
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Or—Myanmar is the one issue I think about most. Introducing virality to an ethnically-tense situation with few counter-balancing institutions is potent. Not a game. We have billions more coming online.
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I'm half-expecting Zuckerberg to break into a song today... "You don't understand what power is... You don't understand what glory is..."



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Zuckerberg keeps saying that you have control over what other people you share stuff with on Facebook. Sure. THE QUESTION IS HOW WE KEEP FACEBOOK FROM COLLECTING DATA ON US. Facebook tracks us online, offline, on and off the platform, cross-device and even BUYS external data.

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He did a pretty good job pronouncing it! Also, few know the correct pronunciation, so no baseline, no worries.
(FWIW it's T-ew-f-ah-k-chee or T-oo-f-ah-k-chee. The u is like the French ü, and the k is hard k and the c is actually ç so ch sound.)https://twitter.com/george_sass/status/984082371367628801 …Show this thread -
Aah, she was just asking about computational inference and external data, and Zuck is dodging and talking about pictures you take and "we don't sell your data" dog-and-pony show. Facebook track us, uses data + algorithms to infer things about us, and then sells that as targeting!
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That last answer: everything Facebook has on you is available on the download to which Zuckerberg said "yes": really? I don't think the data they purchase on you or the data from tracking pixels etc. is on there.
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It seems to me all of the evidence seems to suggest the exact opposite: maybe not the entire tech industry but the new-money Silicon Valley tech elites have a laughably terrible understanding of politics.
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Ugh, the complexity is rarely on purpose and often emerges. Most tech companies would prefer to avoid complexity. But unfortunately the world is complex and thus often our tools mimic and extend those complexities. I hate the “on purpose” narrative.
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