Facebook has changed the way we interact and communicate, much like the telephone did. I'm not an expert, but it wouldn't surprise me if people back in the 1910's-1920's were just as frightened and concerned about the telephone as they are about Facebook now in 2018. Whenever something new comes along, you can be certain that people who don't understand it will call it evil or try to demonize it in someway. It's human nature. It happened with the car, the radio, the tv, the personal computer-any change in technology frightens people who have a hard time adapting.
That doesn't mean Facebook is innocent. While watching the hearings on Wednesday, it became increasingly clear to me that Facebook censors conservative voices to some degree. The famous "Diamond and Silk" are the latest victims of this. I'm very eager to see if Facebook would censor voices that lean to the left. Zuck even admitted that his social environment is "very left leaning" and if that's a surprise to you, than you don't have a clue how modern society works. That's a big admission. Most people who swim in that pool (elite, rich, overwhelmingly white) are so deluded by their views and their friends that they think left wing thought isn't left wing, it's just "enlightened". The other people are conservative but me and my friends? No, just reasonable and moderate. So that Zuckerberg knows his circle is out of touch with 50% of the American population is a good thing.
Facebooks dirty laundry is being thrown out in the open.
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