Discussion: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Admits Errors In Light Of Data Breach Scandal

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#16

Hear, hear. Everyone seemed to be happy giving him a pass on developing Facebook to begin with (in order to “rate” women on campus according to whether they’d give him a toss or not) by pointing out that he was just a college kid. True that kids of college age do stupid things sometimes, and they do deserve a break for some immaturity.

But I always felt that what he set out to do showed a character that wasn’t going to change in any meaningful way as he ages. Anyone who’s old enough to vote or buy cigarettes or go to war has developed sufficiently for us to see what their basic personality is like, and his was petty and vindictive and greedy. It still is.

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#17

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#18

Have you seen this one?

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#19

Or a place where one could go to watch cats who have been trained to poop into the bathroom toilet. Great fun on a rainy day. :unamused:

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#20

Resign and obtain counsel, you goober. Oh, and while you’re at it, change that shirt.

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#21

“The PR is weak in this one.”

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#22

Big trouble ahead:

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#23

Monetize friendships, fuck democratic institutions, calcify inequality. What a business model!

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#24

At last, hometown newspaper SF Chronicle (which is mine) is finally going after Zuck. They’ve gone easy so far because, IMHO, he’s a hometown philanthropist, and no one wants to upset that particular apple cart. But you can access SFGate.com and read more stories than just this one slamming him.

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#25

Please, TPM and other media, stop calling it a data breach just because Facebook calls it that. The data were obtained in the way Facebook was designed to provide it: by asking permission of the users. Facebook wants to call it a data breach because then it sounds like hackers got into the data and stole it.

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#26

Zuckerberg is old enough to make a ton of money, but too young to understand what is valuable in life. Little rat.

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#27

Nooz, dammit.

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#28

I avoided and still avoid any link that asks me for access to my data on Facebook. That so many didn’t astounds me.

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#29

Clean up on Aisle 4, so I can run for president in 2020 and clean up at the cashier station.

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#30

Mike Luckovich does the best tRump. Those tiny, little orange hands. Hey hey

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#31

I deleted my account today.

https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674?helpref=search&sr=2&query=delete%20account

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#32

Ethics used to be part of a liberal education. Looks like Zuck missed that.

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#33

Tiger made a mistake dropping out of Stanford. Mark made a mistake dropping out of Harvard. They should have listened to their parents!

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#34

this still astounds me that people don’t have a problem with listening and monitoring devices in their own home

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#35

This is a pattern of bad behavior on Facebook’s part and it’s impossible to take their excuses seriously. It’s time to delete or at least minimize use of Facebook until they get the message.

Completely agree. Facebook has been cavalier about personal information and privacy for many years, operating on the “better to beg forgiveness than ask permission” principle. This is just more of the same – massive (possibly criminal) breach of privacy and user trust, stock is plummeting, time for a few lame mea culpas so Zuck can get back to business as usual.

I always felt he was incapable of emotional intelligence

Also agree with this. No apparent moral or ethical compass.

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