Facebook becomes Godzilla news outlet for disinformation

[yankeedoodle]

With these CIA/DARPA connections, it's no surprise that Jim Breyer's jackpot investment in Facebook is not part of the popular mythology of Mark Zuckerberg. Better to omit it. Who could fail to realize that Facebook, with its endless stream of personal data, and its tracking capability, is an ideal CIA asset?

https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2015/06/24/facebook-becomes-godzilla-news-outlet-for-disinformation/

[Michael K.]

Ilya Zhitomirskiy:  Murdered for Challenging Facekike?

http://fortune.com/2013/03/26/life-death-and-free-culture-in-the-mission/

Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the co-founder of Diaspora, an open-source social network that many believed could eventually topple Facebook  FB 1.12% . ...Zhitomirskiy lay on his back on the bed, a black bag pulled over his head. A line of tubing connected the bag to a cylindrical helium canister on the floor.

Nearby was a Post-it note, which read, "Thanks everyone for everything. This was my decision alone,"

Ilya Zhitomirskiy was supposed to be the next Mark Zuckerberg. He had the startup, the crowdfunding, the loyal following. And then everything fell apart.

The dragons

After graduation Zhitomirskiy spent a semester at Tulane, in New Orleans, before transferring to New York University, where he majored in mathematics. It was there, thanks to a few influential teachers, that he became enraptured by Free Culture. The way Free Culture activists see it, culture — defined as books, music, movies, and web properties — "wants" to be free. It is only the corporate entities that insisit on commodifying it.

Zhitomirskiy traveled frequently to Free Culture conferences in New York and Berkeley, and befriended activists at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a kind of ACLU for digital rights. (In this way he shared much in common with Aaron Swartz, another brilliant idealist whose life was recently cut short by suicide.) He developed a colorful theory of the "dragons" threatening modern society. The dragons stood for the corporations, he explained to his friends. If a corporation controlled culture, then culture was no longer free. The recording industry, the Internet service providers, the media monopolies, the tech conglomerates: dragons all.

His friend Parker Phinney, who met Zhitomirskiy at a conference at MIT, recalled him saying, "Okay, I'm going to spend my time slaying Google. Now let's find you a dragon to slay."