Re:Zuckerberg Expresses Frustration Over Surveillance
by rhizome on Thursday March 13, 2014 @03:53PM
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Zuck is the wrong person to make entreaties to the President about this because it doesn't affect Zuck personally. As far as the Executive Branch is concerned, Zuck is just expressing an opinion about policy the way an airline CEO might about the FAA: as a business concern, not a legal nor civil liberties one. Obama already knows that the only thing Zuck is talking about is money, not people.
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Re:Zuckerberg Expresses Frustration Over Surveillance
by quangv on Thursday March 13, 2014 @04:15PM
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I don't think Zuck is talking about money, but freedom. Sure maybe it's freedom to make money, but it's also freedom to express yourself.
Re:Zuckerberg Expresses Frustration Over Surveillance
by 001sky on Thursday March 13, 2014 @04:50PM
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I don't think Zuck is talking about money, but freedom
This seems naive. Zuck has enough money to buty privacy, and he made his fortune by enabling the type of surveilance that the NSA does. Frankly, his actions here are about as credible as the Ivy League's moves towards embracing "diversity". They are just ploys, and their biz model is at risk, so this is like "I'sorry"... only that we got caught.
Re:Zuckerberg Expresses Frustration Over Surveillance
by rhizome on Thursday March 13, 2014 @04:30PM
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He already gets all the freedom he wants. Yes, I'm questioning not only his effectiveness, but his motivations.
He consequently simply may not be personally capable of having a freedom-oriented effect here. Said another say, he's a new-money kid, how much power can he really have?