How #facebook’s Naive Optimism Built A Toolbox for 21st Century #totalitarianism
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How Facebook’s Naive Optimism Built The Toolbox for 21st Century TotalitarianismNaïveté, hubris, and profound blindness to the lessons of history don’t have a great track record for producing happy outcomes.“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” — Maya AngelouMaybe when we learned that a 19-year old Mark Zuckerberg called 4,000 of his fellow Harvard students , “dumb f$cks”, for trusting him with their personal information, we should have believed him the first time.But those were the halcyon days of 2010, when Facebook was still a private company and many of us who’d first used it when it was open to college kids only were just nearing the ends of our 20s.Back then, some of us on the outside hoped that Facebook would evolve into the Internet’s humanizing, unifying (...)