Frederick Douglass, MLK and Facebook: Zuckerberg has a bizarre take on history | Julia Carrie Wong

The CEO argues essentially, that the arc of the moral universe is long, but as long as people have a voice (on Facebook) it bends toward justice

I was a 20-year-old college junior when I first signed up for Facebook on 9 February 2004, a date that I will henceforth refer to as The Day Mark Zuckerberg Gave Me a Voice. If this sounds like an absurd premise - my parents, siblings and childhood friends who listened to me jabber and moan for the first two decades of my life would certainly be surprised to learn of my retroactive voicelessness - then consider the bizarre and fundamental wrongness of Zuckerberg's treatise on "free expression".

In the speech at Georgetown University, Zuckerberg presented a defense of Facebook that relied on defining the social media platform as a tool that gives people a voice. He extended this proposition to laughably unsupportable lengths, delivering lines such as, "A lot more people now have a voice - almost half the world," in all apparent earnestness.