If Mark Zuckerberg runs for president, will Facebook help him win?

Re:If Mark Zuckerberg runs for president, will Facebook help... by Lyle-Cantor on Saturday September 09, 2017 @01:18PM (#15208005)

I don't know. Asian nations like Singapore and Japan have done very well with highly-technical public servants, mathematicians and physicists are often in government in Singapore. Anything that gets technical people into office is good in my books. Zuck is a great leader, smart at the level that politicians were in the past and have not been for generations. He could be extremely good. He could be awful. But he is at least an extremely impressive human being, which is more than can be said for recent presidents.

If he didn't own Facebook and was just a guy, I would take him over Sanders and Trump any day. But FaceBook is a scary thing to own, scarier still if you a president.

As a side note, Zuck's admiration for Caesar is a little more disconcerting in the context of politics than business, especially since he operates the most effective surveillance infrastructure ever constructed.

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Re:If Mark Zuckerberg runs for president, will Facebook help... by hellofunk on Saturday September 09, 2017 @02:29PM (#15208451)

I don't think Singapore is the best study in comparisons with the U.S. as it has quite explicitly managed to place high-restrictive control on its population in a way that would not fly (explicitly, anyway) in most Western nations. Singapore is hardly what Americans would consider to be a democracy or free society, and by a very very large stretch.

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