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He built it, he kept his shares of it, it’s his. If you don’t like using a platform owned by mark zuckerberg, you shouldn’t use it. He owns it.
by randyrand 7y ago
He built it, he kept his shares of it, it’s his.
If you don’t like using a platform owned by mark zuckerberg, you shouldn’t use it. He owns it.
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- Nextgrid 7y agoThe problem with Facebook isn’t about who owns it, it’s about its negative impacts on society. What we need is proper regulation to prevent Facebook and similar companies from being nefarious. With those regulations in place it wouldn’t matter whether Zuckerberg or someone else is in control.
- jstepka 7y agoIt's so weird... when Google employees had a revolving door with the white house for Obama (voted twice for him and Hillary) nobody cared. It's utterly ridiculous that tech gets upset when someone they don't agree with uses their tools to accomplish something alternative to their ideas. This is the exact narrative the right uses to describe how hypocritical the left is.
- mc32 7y agoIf that happened with a tech company’s management and the current admin there’d be protests, calls to investigate tech influence on elections, etc... but I digress...
- rumanator 7y ago> It's utterly ridiculous that tech gets upset when someone they don't agree with uses their tools to accomplish something alternative to their ideas. That's quite the euphemism for subverting democracy at the hands of authoritarian regimes.
- misterprime 7y agoWhat entity are you accusing of "subverting democracy at the hands of authoritarian regimes"? Is it Facebook? Is that because they aren't fighting fake news well enough? Is it because they are still accepting political ads without reviewing each one before it is posted? Who do you want to put in charge of reviewing all posts on all platforms before they are allowed to be published? What platform is doing better at this than Facebook right now?
- rumanator 7y ago> Is it Facebook? Why, yes.
- misterprime 7y agoThanks for clearing that up. Interesting. Can you address the other questions as well?
- drewrv 7y ago> What platform is doing better at this than Facebook right now? Traditional media has always fact checked political ads. If Facebook can't do it, that's a sign to me that they're too big to responsibly sell political ads. If Facebook is so powerful that too much power would reside in the hands of their fact checkers, that's a sign they should be broken up.
- misterprime 7y agoWhat about user posts, and not paid political ads?
- JohnFen 7y ago> you shouldn’t use it. I don't. But Facebook adversely impacts me anyway.
- serf 7y ago> He built it, he kept his shares of it, it’s his. that line of thinking becomes problematic when the thing someone built becomes infrastructure within a society. On face value I agree with you, no one should have their owned possessions taken. That said, I don't believe that FB should have been allowed to accrue so much power as a private entity. With that in mind, it makes sense that governments would seek to wrest such a power from private entities. 1) It's a massive national security concern, and 2) It's a massive global security and intelligence asset for those who own it.