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Mark Zuckerberg "urged" Brazilians to tell Congress to "ban bans of online services" in the name of democracy.

Am I an irrational nationalist for believing he shouldn't get into the politics of any country (especially outside of the US)?

Last time someone tried to help us (Brazilians), we got a military dictatorship.



Oh but this isn't even the first time.

See this: http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/5/9099897/facebook-india-inte...

Facebook put up a banner for Indian users to try to influence the passing of a law to allow Facebook to break net neutrality in India.

Acts like these aren't limited to communications companies though. American multinationals have a tendency to exploit poor underdeveloped countries, like Papua New Guinea, and countless African countries.

It's part of the reason why China takes a highly protectionist stance especially with regards to foreign internet companies.


It's not just Indian users neither. Once an Indian user saw that banner and signed it, every single one of his friends got a notification about it. In fact, that chained reaction somehow ended up in my notifications too by one of my friends signing it. I was furious!

See: https://twitter.com/r3bl_/status/679093130080161792 (notice the checkmark that's checked by default).

In my opinion, they managed to accomplish exactly what they wanted to with this campaign: make the whole online call for discussion by the India's regulatory authority meaningless.


I think that this is your congress not the US Congress but I get your point and I'd be offended and irritated if someone special interests driven like Zuckerberg stuck his nose in our politics and internal affairs like this.

Also, I wouldn't rule out that Zuckerberg could resort to astro-turfing tactics and fund those "internet freedom" groups in Brazil to do his bidding. Unfortunately, Zuckerberg turned his tech empire into a big political machine and started to influence or subvert (However you choose to view his actions) politics in foreign countries and should be treated as such not just some harmless business.


Well, last time it was US's CIA. Facebook isn't comparable neither on resources, nor on competence.

They'd better not relate themselves with our Congress, but it's for their own good, not our :)




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