Ever hear of the Voice of America? That's how the CIA reminds North Korea that it isn't a worker's paradise, as it did for the Soviet Union, East Germany, North Vietnam etc. for decades. It's a information source that cannot be censored by any government - all they can do is ban radios and jam the fuck out of the signal.

Now imagine that you don't need a radio, you only need a cell phone (which is not only hella easier to hide, but has a lot more justification for existence) and that instead of the CIA playing the Star Spangled Banner, you've got Facebook serving you fake ads telling you Kelly Ripa has died.

Facebook imagines a world in which Somali pirates might be the closest thing you have to civil order, but you still have a friends list and can follow Funnyjunk. They can also do obnoxious shit like play "who run Bartertown" with entire nation states. If I'm Lesotho, for example, and I've got a limited budget, how easy do you think it's going to be apportioning money to provide cell coverage when Big Blue Father and his beneficent drones are already providing "internet" for free? And if I'm Lesotho, and my "free" internet is being provided by a publicly traded US company, what recourse do I have when Facebook says "we want monopoly ownership of your sky bandwidth or we'll go fly somewhere else?"

Facebook is poised to be the data carrier for the developing world... for Facebook's benefit. Yay for spreading the global love but if you aren't terrified you aren't paying attention. We're in a position to give Facebook several dollars a day for business purposes and there is no aspect of Facebook that is benevolent in the slightest.