Welcome to Zucktown. Where Everything Is Just Zucky. - The New York Times: "In just a few years, Facebook built a virtual community that linked more than two billion people, an achievement with few precedents. Now the social network is building a real community, the kind you can walk around. It is a project with many precedents in American history, quite a few of them cautionary tales about what happens when a powerful corporation takes control of civic life."
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Thanks to Fred Pilot for this link to the latest step in Facebook's efforts to take over the world. They've done a great job wrecking the entire concept of truth in our electoral system, so no doubt this community-builder stage in their world domination strategy will go equally well.
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"It is a project with many precedents in American history, quite a few of them cautionary tales about what happens when a powerful corporation takes control of civic life."
Well duh look at HOA-burdened housing. I'm surprise ECM didn't assert that example!
The HOA corporations have been given considerable and governmental type power over all the homeowners without the restraints the constitution imposes against government. What could go wrong? Actually it's more like how could anyone think they would work? The answer of course is that they don't. They operate to isolate people, limit information flow among the involuntary members, to limit member access to information, and to prevent members from having limited or no recourse for abuses.
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