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If you work at Facebook, you dump poison into the body politic of society every day you log into Workplace. Every Phabricator task is a step forward in Facebook's executives unbounded psychopathic ambition for nightmare surveillance capitalism based on digital addiction. (12/)
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There's a simple inescapable truth about the distinction in kind between Facebook and the others.
Google could fix its content moderation and stop its military contracts and its business model would still be Google. (1/)
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Raja had studied Urdu in school in those days before the Partition when students had a choice between Hindi and Urdu. It was a natural enough choice to make for the son of a Delhi family: Urdu had been the court language in the days of the Muslim and Moghul rulers and had persisted as the language of the learned and the cultivated. Hindi was not then considered a language of great pedigree; it had little to show for itself in its modern, clipped, workaday form, and its literature was all in ancient, extinct dialects. Raja, who read much and had a good ear, was aware of such differences.
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