Science & Tech Quote by Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg sells connectivity as inevitability, and that sleight of hand is the point. The line starts by painting the past as a kind of mute darkness: people had opinions, sure, but no efficient way to broadcast them. Then comes the pivot - "But now they do" - a clean, almost civic-sounding upgrade story where technology doesn't just enable speech, it completes it. The phrasing is disarmingly plain, like a demo: 500 million people, a tool, a voice. Progress, quantified.

The subtext is less democratic than it sounds. "Efficiently" is doing quiet ideological work here, smuggling in a platform logic where expression is valuable insofar as it can be scaled, measured, and routed. And "have their voice be heard" implies a frictionless public square, skipping over who does the hearing, what gets amplified, and what gets buried. The sentence is built to naturalize mediation: social networks become the neutral conduit between thought and society, not the actor shaping what "thinking" looks like online.

Context matters: this is the era when Facebook was marketing itself as infrastructure for civic life, not just a company. By framing the platform as the answer to a historical lack, Zuckerberg positions Facebook as a corrective to generations of silence, rather than a business whose incentives depend on attention. It's a founding myth for the social web: empowerment as product feature, participation as proof, scale as virtue. The promise feels generous; the bargain is that your voice is only heard through a system designed to monetize it.