Posted on 03/15/2021 7:10:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Mark Zuckerberg has control and power few have ever experienced in the history of humanity, and while many have called for the breakup of his social media empire, we’ve rarely ever heard how those who actually guide Facebook’s fleet feel about it. As a new Project Veritas video shows, those that think the empire should fracture include those at the top, who most recognize just how dangerous the monster they control is.
As pointed out by the new Project Veritas video, Facebook’s Global Planning Lead, Benny Thomas, doesn’t care that he’d make less money as a result, but made it clear that if it was his decision, he’d break up the Facebook corporation and severely lessen the power Zuck currently enjoys:
Thomas expressed his desire to see Big Tech companies held to account and laid out a vision for how to accomplish that goal.
“I would break up Facebook, which means I would make less money probably — but I don’t care. Like that’s what needs to be done. Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Oculus, WhatsApp — they all need to be separate companies. It’s too much power when they’re all one together,” he said.
Thomas said he was concerned by the lack of public awareness around Facebook’s excessive power. He specifically mentioned the influence Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg exerts over the company.
“Most people don’t understand these things and most people don’t think about them — which is why a lot of sh*t goes down because a lot of people aren’t paying attention,” Thomas said.
“No king in the history of the world has been the ruler of two billion people, but Mark Zuckerberg is — and he’s 36. That’s too much for a 36-year-old. You should not have power over two billion people. I just think that’s wrong,” he said.
“He [Zuckerberg] owns a controlling stake in the company. So, you can’t do it the usual way that you do it in corporate, which is the board can just fire you, right? The board can’t do that to Zuck. The board can’t do that to Larry Page and Sergey Brin [Google] because they own too much of the company. They’re too powerful. So, these are not companies anymore. These are countries,” he said.
Thomas acknowledged that Facebook’s algorithms are biased against certain kinds of ideological positions and that they were written by biased people. He made it clear that these algorithms also need to be fixed as it lends too much power and voice to one side of the political aisle. In fact, Thomas acknowledged that he was part of Facebook’s voter registration pushed which he believes Biden greatly benefited from:
“One of the things I worked on, which made me happy, was a voter registration drive. These are the kinds of things – this is the good side of Facebook. This is the kind of thing that you can only do with a company that has the sheer scale and reach of Facebook. We set ourselves a goal of registering four million new people and we went over that target, we did 4.5 [million]…”
These are no longer just calls for Facebook’s breakup coming from outsiders. We now have people within the control center screaming that the breaks need to be slammed down and the fleet disbanded out of fear for the safety of the people who use the company to communicate in many different ways.
Ping.
Zuck is well past his ‘use by’ date.
The place of social media in this current age is a topic worthy of serious thought. No prior generations have been subject to so much instant information on a personal level. The gullibility factor. Unless one is anchored in the Word of the LORD, the deceptions and enticements are irresistible.
The talk continues, but without much ever changing.
How to get rid of Zuckerberg’s monopoly? That is the question.
Nobody would believe any #MeToo scandal about Mark.
A Gov. Mario personality he aint!
I always thought the simple thing to do would be for some shareholders to file suit, alleging that management isn’t entitled to loot their assets to pursue their personal political agendas, but for some reason, no one has ever filed a suit like that. After Twitter lost a billion dollars in market value from purging the President and thousands of accounts, I was astounded not to see such a suit.
The Republicans didn’t say anything when he was putting drop boxes in Democrat areas.
Bkmk
Twitter stock is up over 30% since they permanently banned Trump.
Here I am, in the Facebook jail.
Ain’t got no friends
to go my bail...
(30 days! 15 more to go.)
So here I’ll stay,
Cause I can’t pay,
Just send my mail,
To the Facebook jail...
My Speculation w/o any Proof:
Zuck and his close enablers always have the option to ‘tinker’ with the equities. Maybe offer some preferred stock to certain people who show support for various plans and experiments. Maybe board members have a choice of earning some very easy money, based on (unofficial) insider info, or not. No one’s forcing them to invest more.
For those who don’t care about the money, maybe they can become Project Leader of some new production line. Some of such products will never be seen in any store. They will exist only on the drawing boards, as a method of ‘dignified busywork’, quarterly reports and everything.
There are various incentives the CEO could dangle in front of those who decide to keep Zuck in luck just a little bit longer.
Were you shootin’ dice, rakin’ in the dough when you heard the whistle blow? Did you start to run?
As bad as Facebook is, Google and Amazon are worse.
Twitter has nowhere near the power of the 3 listed above. Without their Big Tech cartel partners, Twitter would have real competitors eating into their market share quickly.
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