What scares me about Zuckerberg vs. Trump is how much more of a cypher Zuckerberg is. Trump's motivations are pretty clear: money, fame, and his own ego. These aren't noble causes but they're easy to understand and it's possible to predict what trump will do from these. What motivates Zuckerberg? The mealy-mouthed, 5000 word manifesto [1] from Facebook this year certainly doesn't shed any light on this question. Nor does he have a track record in politics to point to.
From his unscripted words [2], actions [3], and the company he keeps [4] I suspect his vision is some kind of techno-libertarian utopia where anything is legal as long as it's in the TOS - unless it's the bad thing and must be therefore be purged from the internet.
But considering Facebook's weird puritanical streak [5], and their recent refusal to reveal political ad information [6]. I'm left with this quote from Alpha Centauri:
> "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
"Zuckerberg sometimes talks about the promise of brain implants, which he believes will one day convey the entirety of one’s mental state to another human being"
Those who join us need only give up only half of their humanity - the illogical, ill-tempered, and disordered half, commonly thought of as 'right-brain' functioning. In exchange, the 'left-brain' capacities are increased to undreamed potentials. The tendency of Biologicals to cling instead to their individual personalities can only be attributed to archaic evolutionary tendencies.
From his unscripted words [2], actions [3], and the company he keeps [4] I suspect his vision is some kind of techno-libertarian utopia where anything is legal as long as it's in the TOS - unless it's the bad thing and must be therefore be purged from the internet.
But considering Facebook's weird puritanical streak [5], and their recent refusal to reveal political ad information [6]. I'm left with this quote from Alpha Centauri:
> "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
[1] https://www.recode.net/2017/2/16/14640460/mark-zuckerberg-fa...
[2] http://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-use...
[3] http://www.mercurynews.com/2013/10/10/mark-zuckerberg-buys-f...
[4] http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-defends-faceb...
[5] https://news.artnet.com/art-world/facebook-censors-caravaggi...
[6] https://www.yahoo.com/news/fire-facebook-refuses-disclose-po...