What has happened to Wired? Zuckerberg goes into the principles behind these kind of decisions in depth, in his own words, in a conversation with Yuval Noah Harari that for some reason nobody ever mentions: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boj9eD0Wug8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boj9eD0Wug8</a>
The problem with centralized platforms that allow for mass censorship and ubiquitous surveillance is that they are never “on your side.” There will always be pressure to bend the knee to the ruling party, and whether or not you agree with the politics of the ruling party at a given point in time is irrelevant. In a long term sense this is a slippery slope into fascism. Companies like Facebook are responsible to their shareholders, not users, and certainly not our vague notion of democracy.
Zuckerberg also believes Facebook has privacy as a foundation.<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/a-privacy-focused-vision-for-social-networking/10156700570096634/" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/a-privacy-foc...</a>
The premise of "power" and "domination" seems correct. Though there are other things he believes in:<p>- Mark Zuckerberg believes/believed in China. He read Chinese president Xi Jinping’s latest book and recommends it to his employees, learned Chinese, and asked president Xi for a baby name suggestion. [0]<p>- Mark Zuckerberg believes in Judaism. He has grown “more religious” after becoming a father and as a result of the “challenges we’ve been through as a company.” [1]<p>- Mark Zuckerberg believes in Sheryl Sandberg, his Chief Operating Officer since 2008. Author Shoshana Zuboff called Sandberg "the Typhoid Mary of surveillance capitalism." [2]<p>[0] <a href="https://qz.com/1115960/an-idiom-uttered-by-xi-jinping-perfectly-describes-mark-zuckerbergs-frustrating-china-courtship/" rel="nofollow">https://qz.com/1115960/an-idiom-uttered-by-xi-jinping-perfec...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/facebooks-zuckerberg-says-hes-more-religious-since-becoming-a-dad/" rel="nofollow">https://www.timesofisrael.com/facebooks-zuckerberg-says-hes-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheryl_Sandberg#Criticism" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheryl_Sandberg#Criticism</a>
> Over the past two weeks these questions have taken on a new urgency as Facebook employees have for the first time publicly voiced anger and frustration with Zuckerberg’s decision to protect Trump’s calls for state violence against those who are protesting racist police violence.<p>I interpreted the statement as describing people who are breaking into stores.
I live in Europa, so really I don't get what's happening in the US right now, but this Wired article seems so partial and biased against Trump (and Zuckerberg).<p>It's a problem I see more and more in the media: taking side politically. Remember net neutrality? This was one one of the founding stone of Internet.<p>Peer pressure, pushing people and platforms, this is what looks like tyranny to me - not Trump nor Zuckerberg.<p>And of course I will get downvoted by these same people talking continuously about diversity of opinions and freedom of speech.
Siva Vaidhyanathan writes only about Mark Zuckerberg:
<a href="https://www.wired.com/author/siva-vaidhyanathan/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wired.com/author/siva-vaidhyanathan/</a>