Nolte: Mark Zuckerberg’s Fatal Error — Not Leaving Everyone the Hell Alone

Breitbart ^ | 3-21-2018 | JOHN NOLTE

[servo1969]

Make no mistake, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook are in trouble — not just here in America, but all over the world. The Tech Tyrant has only himself to blame. Had he just left us alone, he would not be so alone or widely viewed as a monopoly with all the inherent risks in that. He would also not be a national pariah. When you are in charge of something, be it a Girl Scout troop or one of the most powerful tech companies in the world, the only way to stay out of trouble is with simple and clear rules applied equally. By not doing this, Zuckerberg has wrapped himself ’round his own axle.

Even a billion or so Facebook users are unhappy with him. They feel trapped on a platform that offends them. Much of this resentment comes from feeling swindled. After herding us all into his monopolistic public square, Zuckerberg changed the rules.

On both the micro and macro levels, as Facebook arbitrarily singles out conservatives for suppression, censorship, and purges (not to mention left-wing “fact checks”), all while leftists doing the same remain mostly unmolested. There is no question that this is a digital public square lousy with double standards that we all witness on an almost daily basis

Facebook’s entire problem is right there on its page of Kafka-esque “community standards.” What I mean by Kafka-esque is the opaqueness of rules that can be interpreted in so many different ways — which means there really are no rules, which means 1) you don’t know what the boundaries are, so 2) you are intimidated into not expressing yourself fully, and 3) you can be suspended or purged by Facebook without ever knowing why.

[Falcon4.0]

Mark Zuckerberg is a useful idiot of the left and now that he has outlived his usefulness, they are going to vilify him and take over his empire for their purposes.
He will be lucky if he doesn't spend time in prison.

[Sergio]

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[itsahoot]

Until the leadership changes, the R’s are in trouble.

Nah, server farms a dirt cheap. So cheap that the Pentagon just farmed their storage out to Amazon.

[itsahoot]

The competitors you list are not competitors they are wannabe alternatives.

[itsahoot]

YOU choose to use Facebook et al, when others are just as easy to launch. I mean really - you’re bitching about “monopoly” when alternatives are literally a click/touch one inch above this sentence? Really?

Those service you are promoting are no more alternatives than candles are a replacement for electric lights.

[Maris Crane]

I confess that I never have been attracted to using Facebook.

And I do not like Zuckerberg and would like to see him get a dressing down because he is a snot.

But, I have a problem. I cannot see how in the world selling all the data he acquired to various and sundry entities amounts to influencing an election.

The claim is that misinformation was posted to influence and that sounds to me like normal campaign ads. If you are influenced by ads or fake information, how is that Facebook’s fault. We are bombarded with goofy ads and insults to the opposition,...on TV and the Internet, most not very clever, but is that how we are supposed to decide for whom to vote.

How about listening to the candidate, researching their backgrounds, paying attention to their history...I guess I find it odd that anything that I saw on Facebook would influence me in any way.

But I still dislike Zuckerberg. Look forward to seeing him at the investigations.

[txhurl]

I got a new waffle iron a few weeks ago and was searching belgian yeast batter and now the whole internet is convinced I have a yeast infection and pitches me Vagisil constantly.

[upchuck]

Facebook is evil. Satan sits on the board of directors and has lots to do with the company is run.

[gogeo]

Think about it . . . and refuse to surrender your liberty and personal freedom !

On the Internet, you're either the customer...or the product.

[grania]

WOW!! That’s extreme.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

gogeo :" On the Internet, you're either the customer...or the product. "

Well stated !
Brief, concise, and to the heart of the matter !

[ctdonath2]

We’re talking social media here, not essentials like electricity or gasoline.
You can live without Facebook & Twitter.

[Lagmeister]

Used Duck for a long time, but unaware of the others.... thanks.

[Lagmeister]

I have the accounts but never, ever post. I follow Dennis Miller and some other sites. I log to serf.

[DarthVader]

?????? You are replying to the wrong post.

[RightGeek]

https://www.vero.co/

[Dick Bachert]

It was that great early vaudevillian Jimmy Durante who is credited with the phrase “Everybody should leave everybody else the hell alone.”
Jimmy was right!

[hinckley buzzard]

When the system hands billions of dollars to a pimple faced punk, it gets what it paid for.

[navymom1]

Thanks, it does!!