[kafkaesq]

Personally, I believe Zuckerberg is sincere in wanting to connect everyone in the world with each other.

Agreed. Given what we know about his history, he also seems to think that most people just aren't nearly as smart as he is... and so it's best not to confuse them, with you know, choices. And that the fact that everything they say and do within his realm is relentlessly indexed, analyzed (with literally the most advanced AI techniques money can buy), gleefully pimped out to advertisers -- and at the request of authoritarian governments, outright blocked -- is on balance, all in their best interest.

[Apocryphon]

he also seems to think that most people just aren't nearly as smart as he is... and so it's best not to confuse them, with you know, choices.

It's tragic that this is a mistake we see again and again in tech, even with the presence of anti-authority/countercultural tendencies and groups in this field.

[bdamm]

Every day I'm asked to reduce the choices I provide to my users. I work in cryptography infrastructure. And frankly, sometimes it's much better to provide a sane default and let the ones who really care figure out their own path.

[peteretep]

Steve Jobs was the same.

Doesn't mean they weren't both right though.

[fleitz]

Umm... free internet/basics/walled garden is an additional choice... Not sure how free basics reduces choice.

[LoSboccacc]

If you don't know what real shrimp tastes and you are force fed surimi during a massive disinformation campaign that tells surimi is all shrimp you need, would you call that a choice?

[fleitz]

I dunno but I can tell you that if I was an indentured servant I would under no circumstances accept a free lobster dinner more than thrice a week.

I hear that Facebook employees don't even have such minimal guarantees as indentured servants who could reasonably expect to bw offered something other than lobster at least 4 times a week.

Zuck has brainwashed people to such a degree that they think this 'lobster' is actually good food.