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...OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NEW FACEBOOK MOVIE...
...heard that you’ve decided to make a movie about Facebook. Specifically, about how the social networking site grew from a little project hatched by a vindictive, fame-whoring computer genius into a global phenomenon with over 300 million active users...
...understand that you’re in the moviemaking, not fact-checking, business, so we’ll let our quibbles about realism slide. But here’s one scene—a conversation between Mark and the undergrads who accused him of stealing the idea of Facebook from them—that made us wince...
What we really want to know is how Zuckerberg is going to take this. In the script, right before he creates facemash.com (a sort of hotornot.com spinoff that was a precursor to Facebook), he muses, “The Kirkland facebook is open on my desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendous facebook pics. Billy Olson’s sitting here and had the idea of putting some of these girls’ faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on who’s hotter….Good call, Mr. Olson! I think...
...redress for wrongs suffered in the provinces - a safety valve that Chinese have exercised for two millenniums - have been circumscribed to the point that trips to the capital by petitioners are virtually banned. Access to the Internet has been tightened to the highest level in memory. Even Twitter and Facebook are now blocked. (Read "Chinese Internet Censorship...