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!
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”.
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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