FaceBook Co-founder Chris Hughes on Facebook and IG

You don't need to split up Facebook, all you need to do is let people develop new social media systems. The only reason Facebook has a monopoly is because people like me, who have been trying to do secure communications for decades, are being shut down every time we seem to be threatening to get anywhere.

What Hughes and Zuckerberg want to do is to is get the Facebook assets, like the datacenters, cheap, and have the shareholders pay for them.

Here's David Quintieri, with a coherent opinion, the likes of which you won't find on Fox News, say!

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Just coincidentally, according to this Wired piece, the DARPA "Lifelog" project was cancelled the same day FaceBook launched.

Run by Darpa, the Defense Department's research arm, LifeLog aimed to gather in a single place just about everything an individual says, sees or does: the phone calls made, the TV shows watched, the magazines read, the plane tickets bought, the e-mail sent and received. Out of this seemingly endless ocean of information, computer scientists would plot distinctive routes in the data, mapping relationships, memories, events and experiences.

This has some interesting things about early adopters of Zuckerberg's "tech" at Harvard: 😂

And the next generation of this tech, is to make it part of the network, so it's not dependent on any particular social media platform.

And that tells us more about the issues are with Huawei

At 4 mins 46, the idea that encrypting data gets around the problem is extremely naive.

Student debt is one way that can be used to keep people from engaging in "subversive" activities. If they have to earn high wages to make their loan repayments, then they can't go off and work independently of big tech and capital sources.