Archive || Give Amazon and Facebook a Seat at the United Nations - Bloomberg. It's gibberish.
An odd tweet thread by the writer where he tries to defend his take. Here's a sample...
2. If it’s true that Zuckerberg deferred to Clegg on whether to allow Trump back onto Facebook, it would mark a pivotal spin of the revolving door: a billionaire CEO delegating to a former British deputy PM the power to shape the political future of a one-term U.S. president.
But the thing is - no one in power anywhere respects the UN. Adding companies to it would lead towards the UN collapsing.
it does allow for diplomatic resolutions. it's not very good, but better than nothing, as it sets rules and moderators for these discussions.
Diplomacy is a lot easier in the always online era. Secure phone conversations were HARD and always 1:1 until very recently.
The main usage of the UN is putting things into the liberal American mindset.
Corporations and CEOs shouldn’t be part of it unless they are their own country, and good luck getting America to say Facebook is it’s own country.