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      I’m not sure that a government run propaganda machine would be any better. Especially not this government.

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        You’d be surprised what can happen when you remove all the ads, put it on github, and start accepting PRs.

        If the algorithms for displaying content are options in the user’s settings, all your fears are mitigated

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    Mark is a good, kind person

    No he’s not.

    He has done tremendous, incalculable, harm to countless people. All of our lives are worse because Zuckerberg is an asshole.

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    Any human with knowledge of the company and a decent sense of right and wrong knows it should be dismantled.

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        I mean it is a total lack of value, because it once again means that people listen to some rando on where our society should move towards rather than scientists. Facebook is bad for society. Don’t listen to founders, don’t listen to millionaires, don’t listen to billionaires. Listen to scientists.

        If people actually listen to this dude and not to scientists, that’s an even bigger problem, because once again people are incapable of understanding value at a basic level.

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            Entry level would be listening to scientists on news sites… not continuing to listen to billionaires on news sites. Their behavior has not changed one iota if they continue to listen to billionaires on the news.

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                Here’s the thing. Famous people have been going on and saying things like “Facebook is bad” for over a decade now. Those people you’re talking about already had the chance to get past entry level.

                The “entry point” isn’t “listen to billionaires”. It’s “stop listening to billionaires”. These are two fundamentally opposite ideas so there’s no chance for the first to be an entry point to the second.

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              The general public won’t click on an article about what scientists say, but more likely will click on an article about the founder of Facebook. That’s just how it is. So if you want people to wake up to a fact, it’s helpful to meet them where they are.

              Or you can just tell them what they should value as a source of information, that usually works really well with humans.

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        Okay? So why hasn’t he done anything prior to his exit in 2007? What stopped him from telling Mark or seeing something in Mark that spelled malicious intent from doing the damage he’d later do?

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          Dude, they didn’t even allow public registration a year prior. This was basically the product in its infancy and has no bearing on what’s happened over the course of the last couple of decades.

          I might as well ask you why you didn’t step up and fix it.

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    Since it’s US based, I’m pretty sure it will soon go down with the rest of the nation.

    Maybe trump will nationalize it, to make his propaganda posts always show at the top or some other fascist bullshit.