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I posted this 17 years ago, when I was sitting in the green room at South by Southwest next to Mark Zuckerberg as we were each about to go onstage to our respective panels

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No Fact-Checking and More Hate Speech: Meta Goes MAGA ...

John Hatchard@johnhatchard.bsky.social

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You can hate these people all you like but their money does not rely on your approval or not. They own far far too big a slice of our connectivity and lives to make any dent in their fortunes. This is incredibly galling

As of now it appears that freedom lost. The maddening thing is that freedom wasn’t so much lost as it was sold so that Mark could aggregate an obscene fortune. One he can never spend and one that will never fill the void in his soul.

Sadly he never got his framed Harvard Diploma. Each framed diploma has a handwritten message : you are still a piece of shit. At least the frame shop I work does that. I was told it’s industry standard.

I went to watch Zuck but I also convinced someone to start the heckling that derailed the whole talk, led to a crowd backlash against the abysmal interviewer, and forced FB PR to hold a second Q&A the next day b/c people were so mad he couldn’t answer Q&A b/c of said interviewer. Good times.

Wait, was that when he was interviewed by Sarah Lacey? Because I was there for that and it was one of the worst things be ever seen.