<i>Personally, I believe Zuckerberg is sincere in wanting to connect everyone in the world with each other.</i><p>Agreed.  Given what we know about his history, he also seems to think that most people just aren&#x27;t nearly as smart as he is... and so it&#x27;s best not to confuse them, with you know, <i>choices</i>.  And that the fact that everything they say and do within his realm is relentlessly indexed, analyzed (with literally the most advanced AI techniques money can buy), gleefully pimped out to advertisers -- and at the request of authoritarian governments, outright blocked -- is on balance, all in their best interest.