The overgrown kid in the ball-pit decides what speech is good and what’s forbidden
“Facebook is Mark, and Mark is Facebook.” “Mark has 60 percent voting rights for Facebook. So you have one individual, 33 years old, who has basically full control of the experience of 2 billion people around the world. That’s unprecedented. Even the president of the United States has checks and balances. At Facebook, it’s really this one person.” (Verge)The groovy t-shirt-turtleneck vibe may keep the great unwashed under their spell, but it’s the shared political ideology with the left that keeps these corporate managers free from accountability.
The guy in the ball-pit decides what’s good and what’s forbidden.
Never in modern history has such immense power been in the hands of so few:
“And then, a week after telling the world about “meaningful interactions,” Zuckerberg announced another change that seemed to answer these concerns, after a fashion. For the first time in the company’s history, he said in a note posted to his personal page, Facebook will start to boost certain publishers—ones whose content is “trustworthy, informative, and local.” For the past year, Facebook has been developing algorithms to hammer publishers whose content is fake; now it’s trying to elevate what’s good. (Wired)Read entire article and see video here: https://gellerreport.com/2018/02/overgrown-kid-ball-pit-decides-speech-good-whats-forbidden.html/

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