Mark Zuckerberg is ‘dictator’ of Facebook ‘nation’: The Pirate Bay founder
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Facebook
boss Mark Zuckerberg is the "dictator" of "the biggest nation in the
world", the co-founder of file sharing site The Pirate Bay, told CNBC on
Friday, as he denounced the centralization of power on the internet.
Speaking during an interview at The Next Web conference in Amsterdam, Peter Sunde said that there is "no democracy" online.
"People in the tech industry have a lot of responsibilities but they never really discuss these things ... Facebook is the biggest nation in the world and we have a dictator, if you look at it from a democracy standpoint, Mark Zuckerberg is a dictator. I did not elect him. He sets the rules," Sunde told CNBC.
"And really you can't opt out of Facebook. I'm not on Facebook but there are a lot of drawbacks in my offline world. No party invitations, no updates from my friends, people stop talking to you, because you're not on Facebook. So it has real life implications."
Facebook declined to comment when contacted by CNBC. The social network has 1.6 billion users on its platform.
"People in the tech industry have a lot of responsibilities but they never really discuss these things ... Facebook is the biggest nation in the world and we have a dictator, if you look at it from a democracy standpoint, Mark Zuckerberg is a dictator. I did not elect him. He sets the rules," Sunde told CNBC.
"And really you can't opt out of Facebook. I'm not on Facebook but there are a lot of drawbacks in my offline world. No party invitations, no updates from my friends, people stop talking to you, because you're not on Facebook. So it has real life implications."
Facebook declined to comment when contacted by CNBC. The social network has 1.6 billion users on its platform.
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