Julian Assange and Mark Zuckerberg were two nerds on either side of the privacy spectrum in the twenty-teens.

One was framed and tortured, the other was given an empire.

The message was received.

We now only have the Zuckerberg type.

> on either side of the privacy spectrum

Oh how quickly we have forgotten:

> We plan to build this the way we've developed WhatsApp: focus on the most fundamental and private use case -- messaging -- make it as secure as possible, and then build more ways for people to interact on top of that, including calls, video chats, groups, stories, businesses, payments, commerce, and ultimately a platform for many other kinds of private services.

March 6 2019; https://web.archive.org/web/20190306191516/https://www.faceb...

Of course, none of that happened. But he did make a big fuss about it.

If Julian Assange had taken his privacy principles and built a social network instead of leaking government secrets things might have turned out differently.

I don't think Assange was overly concerned with privacy, transparency was more his wheelhouse.

Nym vpn and its community show the outside the system tech spirit still lives on