Zuckerberg himself controls 60%

But individual users control 100% of Facebook's profits. If users walk, money talks.

I'm not saying the way Facebook is set up is good, but I'm pretty sure it has always been a matter of publicly available record to prospective shareholders what the terms are... You knew, or should have known, what you were buying. If you changed your opinion after buying, feel free to sell. Am I missing something? I hate FB/Zuck as much as the next person, but there's no bait-and-switch or other unfairness here. Just seems like the pouting of the uber-privileged.

Zuck and his programmers surely can figure out how to make FB safe for democracy. The fact that he has not done so in the face of all the evidence is a crime.

You don't have to go back that far. They have never gone away. Just got replaced with a new set. The WW2 MIC (that still exists) and certainly the vulture capitalists -

From dormitory to boardroom is a formidable journey. Whiz kid entrepreneurs even with Ivy degrees have destiny and ego as hurdles. Few are up to it, though some survive.

Give him the Papa John treatment. Fuck Zuckerfuck.

that kid is helping despots ruin the world and working on possibly becoming one himself.

if it passes, maybe i will hold it. if it fails, i will turn around and dump it.

the protocols on his emotions chip?

Not 100% bad but in the short term very bad.

I work in the online startup, tech, and social media space and Facebook is a new kind of beast. Zuck will need to step down son, but not today imo.

not that he mishandled them.

The evidence:

When the first "scandal" struck this past spring, FB stock dropped from 185 to 152 in less than a week. But it soon began climbing and over the next four months, it climbed nearly 43 percent, to over 217 a share -- its highest price ever. Then came yesterday's drop, in which the stock fell to around 176, still 16 percent higher than its March price.

Put another way, between March and yesterday, the Dow Jones climbed by seven percent; during that same period FB stock did six times better than that and, even after yesterday's loss, FB still bettering the market as a whole by a better than 2-1 margin.

The problem of course is that success breeds expectations and the unexpected success FB enjoyed compared to the rest of the market over the past four months undoubtedly has some investors thinking that a change in needed not that the elevator ride has slowed and to a certain extent reversed.

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210932047

This is in DU's General Discussion section, just posted today.