I have been exceptionally critical of Apple, particularly in terms of ATT.

This was a mistake, since fixed, but even then there are no basketball references

Yeah, now it's "Rocket Girls 101" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Girls_101

Probably censorship, but including "篮球" in the query would make it a lot more obvious whether the Houston Rockets are suppressed intentionally or not.

Try火箭队. I got plenty of news results on Baidu.

Screw up by me but point holds. Fixing.

A wild monkbent appears!

This is why the entire second half of the article was detailing where I think focus should be.

Maybe the title was already too confrontational. How about "How I would improve Warren's plan" or something like that?

yes that would have been better. didn't finish article, but headline would have kept me reading to the end because I would have expected critique to be followed with constructive suggestions

Maybe read the article

I have no idea how you guys are getting the impression I'm ok with Zuckerberg's stated goals here. I think I was pretty clear on that point at least!

You were, I had no trouble picking up on it at least.

It seems to me that this battle was really lost several years ago when Google unsuccessfully tried to maintain the ability to "export your social graph" from FB. What's your feeling on how things would have played out differently if at that time FB lost its control over people's social graphs?

It seems to me that if you have to legislate a solution here, writing a law that guaranteed you could export your personal data from any company would be a good place to start. What do you think?

I thought so too, especially given that you devoted a considerable chunk of "The Cost of Monopoly" section to explain why you're actually concerned.

Are you the author? I'm not saying you're ok with his goals. I'm saying that you seem to be very concerned with not coming off as "one of those anti-FB people", to the degree that it weakens the momentum of your writing a lot.

I'm sure other people really like it.

Yes, monkbent is Ben's handle on HN.

No, your essay is not very clear, nor convincing. Wechat is much better positioned to do what Zuck wants to do re: social infrastructure. Given the downwards spiral of the US and European economies, a long short on FB seems more propitious.

Also Thiel as an obvious hand inside the ZuckPuppet.

"This is a response to Marco Arment, Ben Thompson, and other pundits (largely spurred by the PR efforts of Google and to a lesser extent Facebook and Microsoft)"

It may not be self-congratulation, but this sentence is definitely unsubstantiated slander.

Tell that to my family and friends who live in the rust belt and absolutely feel this way. I wrote that from personal experience.