New World Order

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/jurassicpork/33965/new-world-order

"It's time for this government to change. I want a better future for me and my family when I get married." - Amal Ahmed, a 22-year-old Egyptian protester.

(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari)

If one takes even a cursory, hurried look at events in the Middle East this month, especially Tunisia and Egypt, it makes Time's Choice of "Person of the Year" seem unforgivably shallow and superficial. In an unexpected turn perfectly delineated by his apparently clueless and astonished face on the cover, the always-dubious honor went to 26 year-old billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, founder of an online community that made its, and his, fortune not the old fashioned way with advertising revenue through ads but by selling personal information to marketing companies, information we gladly give away to an overachieving Harvard grad nerd so we can more easily supplant actually meeting people.

To bring his amorality into conspicuous relief, Zuckerberg has recently climbed into bed with Goldman Sachs, a bailed-out Wall Street bank that no doubt can give the billionaire boy wonder another Ivy League education in corporate sleaziness. So far, all this has done is to grossly inflate Facebook's net worth and share price and, if one is smart, one will reserve a front row online seat to wait for the Facebook.com bubble to burst like a massive prank cigar.

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[MineralMan]

1. Yes, well, there are a number of Facebook pages where

discussions are going on by Egyptians. They were going on before the uprising, too. Facebook is a gathering place, as well, and not just for U.S. citizens, you know.

Facebook, Twitter, and other places on the Internet are important meeting places all over the world. Why do you think the Egyptian authorities shut down the Internet?

It's just not that simple.

The pages are in Arabic, but Google will translate it all for you, if you choose.

http://www.facebook.com/Page.Egypt

Isn't that an interesting thing?

[mdmc]

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