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Facebook's Final #ZUCKUP

Let the exodus from the social network begin.

Ever since Facebook became an indispensable aspect of our lives, there has been a growing sense of foreboding that something is not quite right, a premonition that eventually we would need to make a total break with the site. In recent weeks, however, the importance of the social network for fomenting insurrections abroad has led many of us to conclude that Facebook was on the verge of transcending its narrow commercial concerns, that it was on the brink of elevating itself into a neutral platform for social revolution. Yesterday, our hopes were finally dashed.

On March 29, Facebook callously deleted the organizing page for the Third Intifada, a call for a Palestinian popular uprising to shake off Israel's brutal occupation that had over 200,000 supporters. The Third Intifada's Twitter and Google-owned YouTube pages still exist. Facebook's act of suppression is an unforgivable #ZUCKUP, may it be the last.

The first major #ZUCKUP was the commercialization of friendship. The second disturbing #ZUCKUP was the remorseless pursuit of privacy-invasive technologies. The third #ZUCKUP, the one that will be remembered as the final nail in Facebook's coffin, is the cynical attempt to stand in the way of history by blocking the people's worldwide movement toward self-governance and democracy.

Let us now kill Facebook with this #ZUCKUP campaign. Pull your allegiance, delete your account and watch for the day that Facebook implodes spectacularly.

In committing communal Facebook suicide, we will open up the possibility of new activist innovations, improved social apps for revolt, fresh perspectives on how to turn online passion into real world action.

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Anonymus

I don't think social networks should be curating the politics of their content from the top down. It should be the users who decide which movements gain steam by virtue of pure numbers.

If a movement is unjust, you don't join it—but you are free to decide without an executive calling the shot for you.

Anonymus

I don't think social networks should be curating the politics of their content from the top down. It should be the users who decide which movements gain steam by virtue of pure numbers.

If a movement is unjust, you don't join it—but you are free to decide without an executive calling the shot for you.

Anon

So Zuckerberg has bowed down to the same Israeli government that begged the US to keep Mubarak in power. Well done. I'm sure Mubarak wishes he had thought of asking Israel to do the same on his behalf before #jan25.

Anon

So Zuckerberg has bowed down to the same Israeli government that begged the US to keep Mubarak in power. Well done. I'm sure Mubarak wishes he had thought of asking Israel to do the same on his behalf before #jan25.

Anonymus

"oh the irony of the facebook share button! I'm clever!"

It's not ironic at all. An equivalent to not including a Facebook share button might be sending anti-imperialist propaganda to all countries EXCEPT England prior to the American revolution. An essential part of bringing down Facebook as the gated community of the web is to be sure that you put as much of the exposé as you can WITHIN the gates.

But you can go ahead and continue to chuckle at your own cleverness if you prefer, of course.

Anonymus

"oh the irony of the facebook share button! I'm clever!"

It's not ironic at all. An equivalent to not including a Facebook share button might be sending anti-imperialist propaganda to all countries EXCEPT England prior to the American revolution. An essential part of bringing down Facebook as the gated community of the web is to be sure that you put as much of the exposé as you can WITHIN the gates.

But you can go ahead and continue to chuckle at your own cleverness if you prefer, of course.

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