(Unpopular) Opinion piece: We're lucky Mark Zuckerberg Is in Charge - Polidicks

We're Lucky Mark Zuckerberg Is in Charge – The Startup – Medium Sorry for the paywall But here’s an unpopular opinion: Months ago, after all of the Cambridge Analytica scandal had broken, and we already knew about their role in the election and fake news, Mark Zuckerberg told us all that he planned on significantly increasing Facebook’s investment in security, and would add thousands of new employees to help that cause. This is what he told the US Congress in April: “I’ve directed our teams to invest so much in security — on top of the other investments we’re making — that it will significantly impact our profitability going forward.” ... Here is the unpopular reality: Mark Zuckerberg told us all he would put our safety, and fixing the problems of Facebook ahead of profits. He did that. Wall Street may not have liked it, but there’s no way around it: the man held true to his word. ... Mark Zuckerberg has a job like no other human has ever had in the history of the world. There is no one on earth—not Tim Cook, not Bill Gates, not Donald Trump, not even the Pope—who can so directly and powerfully affect a third of the world’s population (2.23 billion monthly active users as of June 30, 2018) with the click of a button. Mark Zuckerberg has absolutely changed elections, hell—he has swayed all kinds of global events. But there isn’t a 34-year old on the planet who could have run a company this influential, and this large, to perfection. Or a 44-year old, 54-year old, or 64-year old. He may be naive, but the evidence that he’s actually malicious is flimsy, and often dressed in tin. For that, my friends, we are lucky.

Just wait till we got affordable global satellite internet. Then social medias true potential to open up world's will be realized.

He is literally the most robotic person I have ever seen, there is nothing good about Mark

The Ocean would like to have a word with you...

I'd much rather FB would just go away but that isn't happening

There is no one on earth—not Tim Cook, not Bill Gates, not Donald Trump, not even the Pope—who can so directly and powerfully affect a third of the world’s population (2.23 billion monthly active users as of June 30, 2018) with the click of a button. Mark Zuckerberg has absolutely changed elections, hell—he has swayed all kinds of global events. I feel like the google guys have just as much if not more influence than mark zuckerberg. Particularly since they have a whole mobile platform to take care of.

No shit he's in charge of all that. That's exactly what terrifies me. The man is a sociopath, straight up.

Well he is a robot.

Imagine after everything that has transpired with Facebook, and everything we've seen from Zuckerberg over the years, being a big enough hack to pen a little Medium dot com shitpiece defending a megabillionaire who at every opportunity is selling out and manipulating the public just to earn more money for the sake of earning money. This is like "hear ye, the lord may be cruel at times, but at least he keeps us fed! Keep working the fields, knaves!", but for nerds

Medium is literally a circle jerk of fucking "technocrat" cucks who pat themselves on the back for how their saving the world even though silicon valley has become more corrupt and manipulative than even wallstreet could hope for.

Medium has some nice writers/articles. Most are just a bunch of fucking technocrats with no connection to reality screaming 'FUUUUTUUUURE'