Incredible: from all the books in the world, Mr Free Speech, Zuckerberg wants to ban, it is that of him | Marina Hyde

I I am as shocked as I am confused as Mark Zuckerberg goes all -out To block a brief by the former Director of Facebook Global Public Policy, Sarah Wynn-Williams. I thought the information wanted to be free? I really heard that the speech should be. We know that the revolting oligarch of Meta does not write his selfish public statements, but he should at least take time in his magical calendar charged to read them.

Anyway, even if you think that the stories of reckless people are false – and I do not do it, for a single nanosecond – I thought that the Meta Boss said that disinformation was no longer something? It recently Cut to all his fact checks “Reducing the amount of censorship considerably.” However, here we read stories about how META launched an emergency action in the United States this week to ban Wynn-Williams from promoting or distributing copies of her book. He has argued – successfully, for the moment – that he would be faced with an “immediate loss … in the absence of immediate relief”.

Honestly, Mark: hardens! It was only about 10 minutes that you were Tell Joe Rogan That companies needed more “male energy”. If something is wrong or dangerous or really harmful, let everyone continue to see it – because freedom – but burst a “community note”. As for the way you put a community note on a book, my advice would be to go outside Pan Macmillan, which courageously published Wynn-Williams, with a small sign saying “context”. Listen, if it is a fairly good badwark against the risk of genocide in an old revision of the world in boring development, then it should be good enough for you.

Meta motifs calling on emergency lawyers to block Wynn-Williams’ book seem to be that she went against the terms of its dismissal. Fortunately, none of us has a “non-circular-registration clause” against Zuckerberg, which on this proof and much more should be denigrated every minute of every day in the countries where he operates, and even in those he does not do. There is a bit in the book where his business would be “suspended from the possibility that this gives Chinese regime special access to user data”.

In the conversation, I have the expression “the worst people of the world”, but the Facebook / Meta Top brass are really up there. Wynn -Williams’ book is this thing simultaneously satisfactory but horrible – an initiate story that shows you that all of the horrible things that you already suspected, apparently, really continued in camera. Like some, you did not suspect yourself. I knew that the brand of “Lean in” by Sheryl Sandberg was bullshit – but I did not think that it involved employees of women encouraged to look at her knee / her bed on private planes.

Shortly after refusing this offer, Wynn-Williams dies almost in childbirth. Once back to work, her male boss told her that she was not insufficiently “reactive” during the period. “For my defense,” says Wynn-Williams, “I was in a coma for a game.” For a slight relief, we meet a dark zuckerberg assistant who is supposed to organize his boss’s algorithm so that his messages have a mega-enclosure. Mark’s senior executives all allow it to win in Catan.

And it’s just the thing of office policy. Hardcore activity – What we could call political policy – is much worse. Meta is currently insisting that Wynn-Williams was finally dismissed for “poor performance and toxic behavior”. But it’s incredible to think that anyone in Meta could be dismissed for “toxic behavior”. I am sure that everything they have done did not actively fuel a genocide, as the Rohingyas claim that the negligence of the company has done so in Myanmar. I am sure it could not be as bad as betraying vulnerable citizens in exchange for market penetration.

Very early in the passage of Wynn-Williams 2011-2017 to Facebook, an US Treasury official told Facebook leaders that they are two years old to be hated as much as investment banks. Well, it turned out to be adorably optimistic. I think all of us love The old cuddly banks compared to companies such as Mark or Elon’s. But, of course, technological companies are good, far too powerful to worry about it.

Meanwhile, children of the world have simply been allowed to become hidefully and destructively dependent on their products by politicians that are implicitly – or, As we often claim in this book, explicitly – thank the companies for having helped their electoral success. We, non -American foreigners, we’re hitting American firearms laws and how unspeakable it seems to us to raise children in a world of active shooting exercises and school massacres. But all Western countries and many beyond have failed to protect children from iniquities and poison known to social media. Australia alone has just banned it for those under 16. I don’t know where Zuckerberg’s children (the first born He apparently asked Xi Jinping to name) Go to school. But – like metaphorical crack dealers – many Silicon Valley patterns sent their children to a specific local Steiner school where they are all textbooks and sea paintings and nobody is stupid enough to leave the small scions near the narcotic horrors of the product.

So on Meta Sils. There are words and sentences for these organized supranational companies which harm companies and that apparently do whatever they want, and none of them is terribly bland “technological society”. What did the Indians call the period of chaos and social instability written by the East India Company, the unleashed entity / “Honorable Company” of which I think more and more that the meta is the most redeveloped? Ah yes: anarchy. We live in a modern form now, thanks to Zuckerberg and others, and it is well, we have done more than scrolling the defeat.

• Marina Hyde is a guardian columnist

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