Re:Inside eBay’s bizarre campaign against a blog critic
by pyuser583 on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:06AM
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Have you read about Zuckerberg’s personal security? It’s nuts. He’s probably second only to the president in terms of security.
Considering the necessary exposure the president has, he might be even more secure.
Re:Inside eBay’s bizarre campaign against a blog critic
by packetslave on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:59AM
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I"ve seen Mark's security when he's out and about on campus. They're reasonably discrete about their jobs, given that on any given (pre-Covid) day there were probably hundreds of business and personal visitors on campus.
Personal security for CEOs (never mind billionaire CEOs) is hardly anything new. If I were Mark, received the amount of hate/threat messages he does, and had a young daughter, I'd do everything short of hiring the 82nd Airborne to follow me around.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-silicon-valley-ceos...
Taylor Swift once said "I don't have security to look cool. I have security because people want to take me home and chain me to a pipe in their basement."
TSwift isn't even a billionaire.
Re:Inside eBay’s bizarre campaign against a blog critic
by twothamendment on Thursday June 25, 2020 @03:06AM
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She wouldn't last five minutes chained in my basement because she'd start singing and I'd throw her out! Next if be looking for the person who put her there because that is not an acceptable practical joke! I'm glad she has security.
If nothing else, it's probably safe to assume that someone like Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page regularly get emails or other messages saying things like "im gunna go to ur house nd kill ur dog and ur hot wife"
Law enforcement doesn't have the resources to investigate every one of these, absent a credible threat of it actually happening, so corporate security / executive protection exists to, well, investigate.