{"id":12597,"date":"2014-02-20T18:41:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T00:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12597"},"modified":"2014-02-20T16:42:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T22:42:44","slug":"whatsapp-bought-by-facebook-for-19-billion-promotes-a-radical-anti-corporate-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12597","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp, Bought by Facebook for $19 Billion, Promotes a Radical Anti-Corporate Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The eye-popping price tag\u2014about one-tenth the entire value of Facebook\u2014is the shocker that&#8217;s drawn much media notice. But there&#8217;s another element to the story that is astounding: Koum and Acton have published a manifesto that radically critiques the foundation of modern capitalism\u2014advertising\u2014and denounces materialism. Facebook&#8217;s business model, of course, depends upon both.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/media\/2014\/02\/whatsapp-facebook-anti-corporate-advertising\">WhatsApp, Bought by Facebook for $19 Billion, Promotes a Radical Anti-Corporate Message | Mother Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Will Koum and Acton become part of the Borg they so eloquently decried? The first rule of <em>Fight Club<\/em> was &#8220;You do not talk about fight club.&#8221; The second rule was &#8220;You <em>do not <\/em>talk about fight club.&#8221; Now that Koum and Acton are billionaires and \u00fcber-players on the tech scene, will they continue to spread their anti-consumerism, tech-is-for-the-people gospel? Will they change Facebook, or will Facebook change them?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eye-popping price tag\u2014about one-tenth the entire value of Facebook\u2014is the shocker that&#8217;s drawn much media notice. But there&#8217;s another element to the story that is astounding: Koum and Acton have published a manifesto that radically critiques the foundation of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12597\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[580,137,187,531],"class_list":["post-12597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-acquisitions","tag-advertising","tag-facebook","tag-instant-messaging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12599,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597\/revisions\/12599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}