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shrubbytoday at 4:07 AM4 repliesview on HN

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/

Cory Doctorow wrote a nice summary of the Zuckerstreisand book by Sarah Wynn-Williams.

"First, Facebook becomes too big to fail.

Then, Facebook becomes too big to jail.

Finally, Facebook becomes too big to care."


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gherkinnntoday at 7:35 AM

> Eventually, [Zuckerberg] manages to sit next to Xi at a dinner where he begs Xi to name his next child. Xi turns him down.

That Mark never fails to deliver.

matheusmoreiratoday at 6:31 AM

> When Wynn-Williams give birth to her second child, she hemorrhages, almost dies, and ends up in a coma.

> Afterwards, Kaplan gives her a negative performance review because she was "unresponsive" to his emails and texts while she was dying in an ICU.

Holy shit.

qingcharlestoday at 5:18 AM

Thank you, that was the quote I was thinking of, but couldn't remember.

AgentMEtoday at 7:08 AM

I liked Doctorow better before he cheered for stricter copyright enforcement.