The British nerd who decides what Americans can read on Facebook

So the left hates Clegg for being a sellout, and on the right, well … think of a younger-model Al Gore: a dull, earnest, sanctimonious upper-class policy robot who will always give you some technocratic gobbledygook explanation for why you’re not allowed to eat that sandwich on that particular park bench at this particular time... Clegg is a summers-in-Rangoon, luge lessons kind of guy, just the kind of ordinary, in-touch-with-the-people bloke we all want to decide what we can and cannot read on Facebook. He has a baroness grandmother, a banker father and a Dutch mother. He spent his gap year teaching skiing in Austria, a summer as a banker in Helsinki and was once arrested for setting fire to some rare cacti in Munich. Now this career “public servant” lives in a $10 million palace in California. A liberal like Clegg would never go so far as to use Facebook for censorship, much less censor a guy who was president four months ago. No, instead Clegg laundered the decision to censor by passing it off to Facebook’s Supreme Court: the “oversight board” composed of advisers who … er, think exactly the same way Clegg does. Which is: The best way to win an argument is to find a way to shut the other side up.
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