Comment by doctorstupid

It's clear that Facebook and its ilk are becoming the gatekeepers to elections and social movements. China must have foreseen this long ago when it blocked them. The means are now in place to steer the governments of the democratic world in the directions preferred by those able to pay Facebook. As an increasingly political group of corporations, perhaps these new social gatekeepers will one day like to do a bit of steering towards their own goals. After all, cybernetics is the art of steering.