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Facebook receives plenty of pointed criticism from numerous angles and yesterday Elon musk joins Baron Cohen in this.
This criticism continues including for refusing to police political speech on Facebook, its seemingly endless string of privacy breaches, and its apparent coziness of late with the Trump administration.
One of the platform’s most prominent critics, somewhat unexpectedly, has become comic, writer, and actor Sacha Baron Cohen. Indeed, his persuasive speech to the Anti-Defamation League in November, characterizing Facebook as the “greatest propaganda machine in history,” quickly went viral. (We republished it here.)
Baron Cohen isn’t done railing against Zuckerberg, however. Yesterday, he tweeted in frustration, “We don’t let one person control the water for 2.5 billion people. We don’t make one person control electricity for 2.5 billion people. Why do we let one man control the information seen by 2.5 billion people? Facebook needs to be regulated by governments, not ruled by an emperor!
We don’t let 1 person control the water for 2.5 billion people.
We don’t let 1 person control electricity for 2.5 billion people.
Why do we let 1 man control the information seen by 2.5 billion people?
Facebook needs to be regulated by governments, not ruled by an emperor! pic.twitter.com/o4hNRFNpgt
— Sacha Baron Cohen (@SachaBaronCohen) February 5, 2020
After a few hours, Tesla founder Elon Musk Replied to the morning diatribe’ tweet, Saying “#DeleteFacebook it’s lame.”
#DeleteFacebook It’s lame
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 8, 2020
It was short, sweet, and to the point (and presumably gave Cohen a lift).
To which Vitalik says regulation by governments is also dangerously close to being “controlled by 1 person”.
>=50% of the world’s population live in governments that are dangerously close to being “controlled by 1 person”.
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) February 8, 2020
Elon Musk, who always spoke his mind, has been encouraged of late thanks to the skyrocketing value of Tesla. But Musk has long been a critic of Facebook, tweeting in 2018 after deleting his companies’ Facebook pages that he doesn’t “as Facebook gives me the willies. Sorry.”
Musk and Zuckerberg have butted heads in the past over the future of artificial intelligence, too, with Musk calling Zuckerberg’s understanding of the future of AI “limited” in 2017.
Read what Elon Musk answered to Jack Dorsey when he asked him how to Fix Twitter
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