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Jiang says Facebook's success and data-center investment make most sense if social media and AI are infrastructure for a future surveillance state rather than ordinary consumer products.
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Jiang says Facebook's success and data-center investment make most sense if social media and AI are infrastructure for a future surveillance state rather than ordinary consumer products.
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Modern tech firms are presented as inheritors of the same strategy: public U.S. military technology is handed to trusted fronts so surveillance appears voluntary and private.
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"...then he got billions of dollars from venture capitalists to start Facebook. Why did he get this money? Facebook is not a great idea...."
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"...controls the world's search. Amazon controls, buying things, right? What does Facebook do? It doesn't do anything, right? So how do I explain why..."
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"They look exactly the same. They are the same. They look like clones of each other. No personality, no ideas of their own. They're..."
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"...This 19 -year -old guy drops out from Harvard and founds Facebook, okay, and now he's a billionaire. How does that happen, guys? Well,..."
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"...spy on me, right? But if Mark Zuckerberg says, hey, free Facebook, guys, would I use it? Yeah, sure. Facebook, yeah. He's a dwarf..."
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"...incentives. And, you know, the media didn't like Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook because 70 -80 % of ad revenue went to Google and Facebook...."
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"...Middle East? And we know that social media, basically Twitter and Facebook, were instrumental. And organizing people and promoting unrest in these places. All..."
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"...of each region. And through social media. Through mechanisms such as Facebook and Twitter. They were able to manipulate certain emotions. So the second..."
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"...this guy makes money, okay? If you look at Tesla and Facebook, and you come in and says, listen, there are these two companies,..."
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"...this for free why would they do this okay so Twitter Facebook that's the public face okay what we'll forget is behind Facebook and..."
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