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...drunk as they spout their beery misogyny. And there's an eerie scene in a revival tent where he accepts Christ as his Savoir and babbles in tongues. As if honoring the intensity of the believers' fervor, Baron Cohen does not act up - he goes with the holy-water flow...
...Facebook bothers me because it implements all too well Zuckerberg’s guiding principle, that the free flow of information is in everyone’s best interest. “Information flow is an important issue,” Zuckerberg writes in a Facebook group devoted to the subject, “because our ability to solve other problems is generally limited by our ability to communicate with other people.” More information helps us make better choices. If I am looking for a new roommate, every detail about Bill helps me make a fairer assessment...
...free flow of information, checked by individual privacy controls, grants us a wider array of choices and makes us better off. But at least in Zuckerberg’s current implementation, it also means we lose a choice. We can’t say “I’d rather not have this information.” We can’t say stop...
...Doctors don’t demand that patients undergo criminal background checks. In such situations, we recognize that more information can give us more choices and at the same time, make us poorer decision-makers. And so we decide that the best choice is to make the information flow stop...
...Facebook, always an experiment in open communication, attempted this week to expand its position. The venture was unsettling, but not wholly unproductive. Millions asked how information impacts choice. Zuckerberg grappled publicly with what the “free flow of information” really means. Having been deluged in overwhelmingly negative input, it would be a sad irony if the Facebook did not now scale back. They have the information—but will they make the right choice...