Facebook the Colonial Empire - The Atlantic

a high-profile member of Facebook’s board of directors, the venture capitalist #Marc_Andreessen, sounded off about the decision to his nearly half-a-million Twitter followers with a stunning comment.

“#Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades,” Andreessen wrote. “Why stop now?”

After that, the Internet went nuts.

Andreessen deleted his tweet, apologized, and underscored that he is “100 percent opposed to colonialism” and “100 percent in favor of independence and freedom.” Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, followed up with his own Facebook post to say Andreessen’s comment was “deeply upsetting” to him, and not representative of the way he thinks “at all.”

#disruption #colonialisme #venture_capitalists #oops

“users” is a term that Facebook now discourages, favoring “people” instead. Though “users” was, at least, an improvement over “dumb fucks,” which is what Zuckerberg called the people who signed up for Facebook when it was new

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