Facebook the Colonial Empire - The Atlantic
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Today’s empires are born on the web, and exert tremendous power in the material world.
Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t had the best week. First, Facebook’s Free Basics platform was effectively banned in India. Then, 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
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