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Zuckerberg: If Someone Gets Fired For Data Abuse 'It Should Be Me' (cnet.com)
Mark Zuckerberg isn't planning to fire himself. At least, not at the moment. From a report: During an interview with Recode's Kara Swisher published Wednesday, the Facebook CEO touched on Russians interfering with US elections, misinformation, data breaches, the company's business model and more. When asked by Swisher who's to blame for the Cambridge Analytica scandal and related data misuse, Zuckerberg said he "designed the platform, so if someone's going to get fired for this, it should be me." Swisher followed up by asking if he was going to fire himself. "Not on this podcast right now," he said. Zuckerberg also defended the social media platform's decision not to kick off conspiracy theory-peddling websites like the far-right InfoWars. From a report: Zuckerberg said that instead of banning websites outright, the company removes individual posts that violate Facebook's terms of service. Posts promoting violence are particularly likely to be taken down, he added. Zuckerberg, who is Jewish, said even Holocaust deniers have a place on the platform as long as they genuinely believe the content they share. "I find that deeply offensive," he said. "But at the end of the day, I don't believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I don't think that they're intentionally getting it wrong."
Please. Go back to your home planet.
[Cut to planet of the apes]
Oh shit. There goes the planet!
Let's fire the guy that can live a thousand lifetimes with the money he's got, that'll show'em! Congrats to Zuckerberg for taking one for the team.
It should require more than a trite mea culpa and a retirement of decadence and luxury to get the heat off them.
If someone should go to jail for it, who should it be?
as long as they genuinely believe the content
Facebook needs to mark the people they believe are really believing what they say with a Certified Genuine Believer (r) designation.
GTFO.
How could they not be intentionally getting it wrong? Sticking your fingers in your ears and ignoring facts while spreading lies isn't getting it intentionally wrong?
He knows he will always control Facebook courtesy of his massive shareholdings.
Why try to pretend that he would have to take responsibility for his company's failures?
Zuckerberg: If Someone Gets Fired For Data Abuse 'It Should Be Me'
Oh, so he's stepping down? How refreshing to see a CEO take personal responsibility for something. Hopefully the next CEO does a better job.
Zuck the Cuck!
Zuck the Cuck!
Zuck the Cuck!
If the Winklevoss' idea hadn't been flawed, this never would have happened.
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"conspiracy theory-peddling websites"??
What are those? Examples please!
Oh, maybe they mean a blog where somebody pretends to be chased by a bunch of trolls and an Ancient Alien mod led by Robert Bigelow?
I took 2 years of Russian in high school, so let me translate: there will be no accountability at Facebook for the Cambridge Analytica data privacy violation, nor will Facebook change any policies or terminate any profitable contracts as a result.
this makes it sound like he's taking responsibility when in fact he's taken none. At his income bracket he's above the law and he knows it. We don't spill the blood of kings.
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Look, this is why it can be bad to work for family owned firms. Even if he is fired, he still controls the stock, and FB will still continue to do bad things, because he controls it.
Fix the problem and stop pretending there isn't a problem.
Short version: do to the rest of the world what you do in Germany. There you aren't allowed to help Nazis or spread false conspiracy theories.
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"... for, er, nothing"
This seems like an obvious "Well I'm glad we reached consensus so quickly..." opportunity.
I can afford better lawyers.
What he is doing is right... standing up for free speech.
I wish I were so naive again. Those were simpler times.
Any sufficiently unpopular but cohesive argument is indistinguishable from trolling.
It's real easy for someone with as much ill-gotten gains as Zuckerberg to say something like that, and it doesn't mean a gods-be-damned thing when he says it.
It is time for Facebook to go the way of the dinosaurs and Zuckerberg with it. The nature of so-called 'social media' has to change, and the data-ripping has to stop completely. Of course I'd be even happier if 'social media' as a concept went the way of the dinosaur, I think it's a cancer on our civilization.
In Zucks world, its not their fault for using his data that way, its his for giving it to them?
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Zuckerberg: If Someone Gets Fired For Data Abuse 'It Should Be Me'
Swisher followed up by asking if he was going to fire himself. "Not on this podcast right now," he said.
Talk, talk talk. It's all talk. Elephant talk.
has to get its ads working for its customers.
All that PRISM too with its other customers.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I'd lol if people asked him to step down
Drop the false sacrifice. You attended Harvard. Craft a resignation letter, sign it, and Facebook will be better for it. And besides the privacy and data abuses, you're "service" has enabled killings, mob action, and destroyed livelihoods, and you knew it all along and sat there allowing it to happen while you got paid billions.
So tak eyour money and shut the f*** up.
what you said in an email interview a long time ago, that people were idiots for trusting you with their data (that's the cleaned up version of what you said).
Along with CROOKED Hillary.
And where are those servers? I want to know where the servers are. I mean where are the servers, and where are those 30,000 emails?
And what about Benghazi?
There also wasn't not any COLLUSION that I never didn't not say that I did, when in fact I didn't, so hopefully that doesn't not clarify what I didn't not do.
If you believe it to be true, then it's not a lie. This is classic Seinfield reasoning.
I stopped wasting my time with that mindless shit a long time ago. It started out for college students only, then they opened it for everybody. Scince then, it has become the AOL of the internet, and like AOL, has gotten progressively worse. FB Messenger for Android s a bloated beast weighing in at over 300 megabytes, and gets it's tenticles into everything.
Fuck Facebook. May it fail and fail hard.
Zuck will not be fired, as he himself is quite aware of. So what he's saying is, "Nobody will be fired for this."