Starling Foundries
1 min readJul 31, 2018

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This whole argument begins from its conclusion and works backwards. If you were inclined, like I am to believe in limited personal power this is the rallying call for the ghost of Brandeis and Teddy Roosevelt to smite this horrible company off the face of the Earth. The problem with the web as we have it is that companies have come to embody services that the internet itself affords. Zuckerberg didn’t invent the internet, the idea of human connections or even the concept of a social network. He just concentrated that offering under the banner of one well-known a-hole and his bobblehead executives. Facebook is too powerful to be allowed to continue and the stock market dump is not an indication that Zuck is standing up to Wall Street, you could have made that argument better by studying the size of the stock sales, did big holders sell their stock or many small hands? I don’t particularly care because you could be 100% right on facts and 100% wrong on ethos. Break up facebook or give up on democracy. We don’t need a massive social network with the power to dictate terms to governments and selling out its users on a national scale.

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Starling Foundries
Starling Foundries

Written by Starling Foundries

Errant scientist with solutions looking for problems. I like blockchains and geoscience the most.

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