First, a disclosure: I hate Facebook, I think Free Basics is evil, and I think Marc Andreesen says a lot of stupid shit.<p>That being said, this whole uproar is just more proof that social media is totally, utterly broken. Let me explain.<p>While I think Marc is on the board of an evil company and that his thought process on this matter is incredibly ignorant, I really appreciate the fact that he shares his point of view. I don&#x27;t just appreciate it, I respect it. Maybe he&#x27;s got a point. Maybe he doesn&#x27;t. I won&#x27;t know unless I hear what he&#x27;s got to say, and then spend some time thinking it through. This is what <i>intelligent</i>, <i>thinking</i> people do. Before they turned into kettle pots of blind activism, this is what people went to college to learn to do. This is what makes living in a free-speech democracy so great -- people say totally crazy shit, some people agree, some people don&#x27;t, it&#x27;s all good.<p>Maybe the education system broke down or something, but people are no longer capable of dealing with viewpoints that differ from their own. They immediately label the person with whom they disagree, shame them (look at all of those screen grabs! Oh my!), and broadcast their displeasure to the world. We live in a world where people are supposedly taught to embrace those with different views -- that you and your best friend and your daughter&#x27;s husband and your next door neighbor might not actually have the same exact views, but you can still be friends and get along just fine -- but this sort of tempered nuance attracts zero attention in a click-like-share world. Tolerance gains no attention in the world of social media; &quot;disgust,&quot; &quot;outrage,&quot; and other such intolerant reactions attract a crowd of views.<p>People should be thanking Marc Andreesen, the Facebook board member, for being so utterly candid about his thought process. Those in disagreement should cite facts to educate him. I&#x27;m sure he has his own facts that form his opinions (and surely, he does). Maybe his opinions won&#x27;t change, and maybe those of the dissenters won&#x27;t either. You know what, that&#x27;s okay! That&#x27;s LIFE. Life isn&#x27;t about being right, it&#x27;s about being alive. You can think Marc is a total moron on the India topic and still be his friend. We don&#x27;t all have to agree on everything. It&#x27;s WEIRD if we did -- there&#x27;s nothing real about it. As I like to say, &quot;a friend with whom you&#x27;ve never disagreed is a potential enemy you never knew you had.&quot;<p>Social media justice isn&#x27;t justice, it&#x27;s a modern-day mockery of the freedom of thought we fought so hard to attain. This shit is broken, folks. I don&#x27;t know why Marc bothers with it, but I guess he is one of those people who thinks social media is the future of human discourse.  I&#x27;m not. And that&#x27;s okay.