[mc32]

To some degree I agree that some of these companies have too much control over users and collect too much information and give users too little control in that.

With that said, I feel there’s some irony in this. These companies essentially have encouraged and enabled these attitudes in their workforce thinking this would make the employers look like they shared the same goals and had to good of workers in mind. Essentially they thought coöpting the workforce was possible without negative outcomes. History shows this doesn’t work, unless you are a tyrant and have absolute control and have real ways to control them outside of work.

For example Mao could have his PLA and could have his Red Guards and use them to achieve whatever policy he wanted, no matter how ill advised.

[hos234]

Zuckerberg is known to rave about Emporer Augustus achieving 200 years of world peace through "harsh methods".

So they cherry pick whatever stories they want from history to justify their mistakes.

[methodover]

Do you have a source for the Zuckerberg quote?

[jlarocco]

Not hard to find...

I think the original is here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/17/can-mark-zucke...

And then there's a ton of commentary about it: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/12/what-a...

https://theconversation.com/mark-zuckerbergs-admiration-for-...

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