Sooooooo glad I never used his product.

NT

I refuse to use Fascist Book and i urge everyone else to drop it as well. Our nation hangs in the balance right now.

...right about Zuckerberg.

Libertarians believe that no government restraints should be placed on any business or individual ever, with the possible exception of murder, though I'm pretty sure they don't care much about that either. Zuck is the ultimate "It's mine, don't fuck with me" kind of guy.

The insinuation that you make due to some of his life choices is out of bounds.

Never have, never will.

Ask all the unemployed assholes who posted some shit!

...but have never signed up for it or Facebook. Hell, I spend too much time on DU and TPM and the Internet in general as it is. (I've even refused to get a phone, because of all the people I've witnessed--coworkers in particular--who can't go a half-hour without plugging back into the Matrix.) ...And yeah, I don't think anybody wants to get Gillenbranded for life over a message posted in haste or anger or a selfie driven way beyond the borders of context and dumped to the wolves. I'll probably not be around for it, but politics twenty years hence are gonna be a hoot when people's lives are ruined over some post from early grade school.

Thinking of you, Al.

as well. Maybe it’s because all of my friends on Facebook are Democrats and we make fun of him all the time.

I don’t really understand the difference.

And yes, I do know that there are trolls paid by Russian money to influence voters. I’m just saying that trashing politicians is not limited to one side. We do it too.

'parasite' when I refer to them?

Zuckerberg is a prime example. Why should we allow this man, little more than a maggot eating at the nearly-dead flesh of our republic, to have a giant tax cut when we don't have health care?

Zuckerberg, Koch, Adelsen, Mercer, the Waltons.

We don't need billionaires. And when we have the top 0.1% of the population having more wealth than the bottom 90%, we've got a problem that needs to be solved with a) confiscatory taxation designed to make billionaires into millionaires, and b) a regulatory structure that prevents them from further hurting the republic.

Billionaires are PARASITES.

are directly responsible for the dumbing down of America, and the spread of lies and innuendo from foreign governments wanting to weaken or destroy our democracy. Fuck Facebook, Zuckerberg, and the high-horse he rode in on. All he cares about is money, and I do believe he's a closeted fascist.

It started when giant corporations like GE bought up the media companies. They immediately turned their news divisions into profit centers and that meant creating the news rather than following the news. One of the chief ways was to start chasing poll numbers and then fixation on creating a horse race because when you have a horse race you have more political advertising.

That also gave rise to the second wave and a new media company using sports to finance a news division that was in reality the propaganda arm of one political party. One that wasn't subject to the fairness doctrine or FCC regulation by being an unregulated cable company and Fox is born.

The third phase also was built on another advance in the technology field and that was the wild, wild west of the internet where Twitter, You Tube and Facebook could disseminate misinformation in a nanosecond. Having no regulation means the public is at the mercy of people like Mark Zuckerberg that green lights pure propaganda, not just from the political parties, but also from foreign sources like Russia backing one candidate over another while posing as a legitimate American source.

But, as we see here, the market will not self regulate. We need tools and that means content regulation and bringing back tools like the fairness doctrine that Reagan ended. A Democracy sorely needs accurate information rather than propaganda. That won't mean that people will vote their self interests because politicians will still pander to peoples prejudices in subtle ways but we really started to see the problems of disinformation in the 2000 exit polls where Fox viewers were the most uninformed voting group by far.