{"id":30852,"date":"2021-01-14T21:21:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T02:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=30852"},"modified":"2021-01-14T21:45:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T02:45:25","slug":"our-paranoid-friend-who-fears-facebooks-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/14\/our-paranoid-friend-who-fears-facebooks-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Our paranoid friend who fears Facebook’s power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A friend of a friend quotes Benito Mussolini (not as much like Hitler as Donald Trump, but perhaps better acquainted with Hitler on a personal level):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

He wrote this on top of a tweet expressing concern about the power of an alliance between Silicon Valley’s Big Tech firms and the rulers of the U.S.:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As a demonstration of how irrationally paranoid this guy is for imagining that a combination of political rulers and corporate cronies would suppress his speech via deplatforming, Facebook has deplatformed him… Here’s what he got when trying to post an innocuous update:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Confusingly, it says that he can’t “go live” despite the fact that he wasn’t trying to “go live”. Nor is he a business and therefore wasn’t attempting to advertise.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was the attempted update? “I’m really looking forward to President Biden’s wise leadership.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related:<\/p>\n\n\n\n