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^As if its the first time he has feigned anger over this issue.

 

2010:

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Privacy no longer a social norm, says Facebook founder

The rise of social networking online means that people no longer have an expectation of privacy, according to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Talking at the Crunchie awards in San Francisco this weekend, the 25-year-old chief executive of the world's most popular social network said that privacy was no longer a "social norm".

"People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people," he said. "That social norm is just something that has evolved over time."

 

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his  180  in  2014 (post-Snowden) when his phony company was threatened by  the  perception they wouldn't protect privacy but were enemies of it

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Mark Zuckerberg: US government surveillance is a threat to the internet

Facebook founder reveals he personally called President Obama to express ‘frustration over the damage government is creating’

 

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The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth rates, mass immigration, and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive alteration as a society and an eventual end.

This is not just an analysis of demographic and political realities, it is also an eyewitness account of a continent in self-destruct mode. It includes accounts based on travels across the entire continent, from the places where migrants land to the places they end up, from the people who pretend they want them to the places which cannot accept them.

Murray takes a step back at each stage and looks at the bigger and deeper issues which lie behind a continent's possible demise, from an atmosphere of mass terror attacks to the steady erosion of our freedoms. The book addresses the disappointing failure of multiculturalism, Angela Merkel's U-turn on migration, the lack of repatriation, and the Western fixation on guilt. Murray travels to Berlin, Paris, Scandinavia, Lampedusa, and Greece to uncover the malaise at the very heart of the European culture, and to hear the stories of those who have arrived in Europe from far away.

This sharp and incisive book ends up with two visions for a new Europe--one hopeful, one pessimistic--which paint a picture of Europe in crisis and offer a choice as to what, if anything, we can do next. But perhaps Spengler was right: "civilizations like humans are born, briefly flourish, decay, and die."

 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33584231-the-strange-death-of-europe

 

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As Murray observes, only in Eastern Europe, countries that know all too well the cost of invasions—first of Nazis then of Bolsheviks—has the refusal to admit the flood of aliens been strong enough to withstand the shaming of the Eurocentric Left. In spite of the lingering effects of Soviet occupation, they still have, at least to some degree, what so many of their western neighbors lost decades ago: a living faith, the heart of centuries-old traditions. That faith suffered enormously from the Soviet’s efforts to stamp it out, just as local traditions virtually disappeared in districts where the occupiers “relocated” ancient towns and villages. Notwithstanding those details, the faith has survived, and it’s hard not to think that it’s the backbone of the political will France, Germany, Sweden, and the U.K. lack.

 

What is to be done? For Murray, an atheist and homosexual, the answers are clear enough politically: a closing of borders, the proscribing of Sharia, the vigilant hunting down of terrorists, the encouragement of European women to have children (which, surprisingly, they are not as averse to as one might expect). The policies that will protect a civilization that has given the world so much are hardly a mystery. But where is the will?

 

It seems that no number of rapes, car bombings, Jewish-school massacres, and murdered priests will silence the cry of “racist” and “racial profiling” hurled at those who attempt to stem the flow of Muslim men and women into Europe. It will take a group of politicians and citizens of very stern character and strong faith to withstand the litany of shaming that has become the common reply in media and parliaments to those who would institute immigration reform. If that character is found wanting, Europe, as Bernard Lewis has predicted, will be Muslim by the end of the century. Douglas Murray’s book is a warning of that very real possibility.

 

http://www.thechristianreview.com/douglas-murrays-the-strange-death-of-europe-warning-to-the-west-or-obituary/

 

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"I know all about the revolutions and how they start. (...) I know what I am talking about when I am talking about the revolutions. The people who read the books go to the people who can't read the books, the poor people, and say We have to have a change. So, the poor people make the change, ah? And then, the people who read the books, they all sit around the big polished tables, and they talk and talk and talk and eat and eat and eat, eh? But what has happened to the poor people? They're dead!"

 

"And what happens afterwards? The same fuckin thing starts all over again!"

 

 

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