it was Clegg who had once vowed that he would go to prison before registering in a pilot national identity database. But he was also the guy whose tenure as deputy prime minister became in effect a five-year apology tour after he broke a host of key promises in the coalition government. And the more I thought about it, the more the pairing seemed to be a match made in heaven. Both Zuckerberg and Clegg had built their careers on compromising their principles, both suffered catastrophic blows of public confidence after they ignored their promises to users or voters, and both stopped being cool
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