DUNCE OF THE MONTH FACEPLANT
By AndrewAmundson
T here’s not just one white-hot scandal regarding trillion-dollar Internet- monolith Facebook and its founder at the moment... Instead, it’s more a collection of cultural tumors, all metastasizing since 2004. And that bit of cancer now encompasses nearly three billion active users – home to a motley mix of racial hostility, Russian interference in our elections, breeding grounds for Capitol siege QAnon loyalists, and your mom. If (when) the Big Tech plutocrats 3D print a Mount Rushmore of themselves, CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s unblinking glassy eyes would be eerily front, back, and center.
Or let’s try to imagine the Silicon elites cast in a streaming family sitcom... Jack Dorsey’s the absentee wayward, wanderlust hipster son, Jeff Bezos is the delusional, midlife-crisis-ravaged dad, and Zuck’s the unassuming bad-seed child (Elon Musk pops in every few scenes as the eccentric neighbor, à la Kramer.) Twitter, land of 280 characters but no real character , has its issues. Bezos won the game of capitalism and now busies himself shooting William Shatner into space. And Elon continues to revel in Internet trolling and giving autism a grating name. But when you make a Prime order, you’re at least receiving something at your door (a signed
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