Posted on 08/04/2021 6:24:05 PM PDT by RandFan
Ken Burns blasted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as ‘an enemy of the state’ who ‘doesn’t give a s***’ about the United States and thinks he and his No. 2, Sheryl Sandberg, should be tried for crimes against humanity and put in prison.
‘He knows he can transcend it. He can get away to any place,’ Burns, the award-winning film documentarian and historian, told The New York Times.
‘And so it’s just about filthy lucre, that’s it.’
Burns, the 68-year-old two-time Oscar winner, made the remarks during an interview with Times podcaster Kara Swisher, who invited the filmmaker to talk to him about his latest project - famed boxer Muhammad Ali.
He brought up Zuckerberg’s name unprompted even though Swisher didn’t ask about the tech mogul.
Swisher did not follow up on Burns' comments, and the filmmaker did not specify why he thought Zuckerberg was a traitor.
Instead, Swisher responded to the Zuckerberg comments by cryptically telling Burns: 'You’re going to love my memoir, Ken.'
The two then move on to discuss the craft of documentary filmmaking.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Facebook and Burns seeking comment.
Zuckerberg, the founder of the world's most popular social media platform that counts more than 2.7 billion users globally, is the fifth richest person on the planet thanks to a net worth that is estimated at around $130billion.
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PBS giant might just be one of us ?!
Who knew Ken had this kind of principle?
Ken Burns is in the process of being cancelled.
“Enemy of the state”
Be very careful comrades.
When you’re right, you’re right.
Some are waking up ,amazing
The left eating their own. This happens a lot now a days. Just so happens in this case he’s right.
If just being a blankhole is a crime in the USA, then Zuckerberg can expect a cramed cell.
Broken clock syndrome.
And yeah the enemy of the state stuff is just a tiny bit over the top doncha know.
Flaming libs eating each other is fun to watch.
This is an interesting read from 2/04/04. The same date that Facebook started
“ Pentagon Kills LifeLog Project
The Pentagon canceled its so-called LifeLog project, an ambitious effort to build a database tracking a person’s entire existence. Run by Darpa, the Defense Department’s research arm, LifeLog aimed to gather in a single place just about everything an individual says, sees or does: the phone calls made, the TV shows watched, the magazines read, [.....”
https://www.wired.com/2004/02/pentagon-kills-lifelog-project/
I sure didn’t while I have enjoyed some of his documentaries I’ve always felt they were too PC
I might have to change my mind about this guy
Enemy of the people, for sure.
I think Burns is seeing the writing on the wall when it comes to free speech in this country today.
As many wise people have onserved, the First Amendment is not about expressing popular opinions that everyone agrees with, it is about protecting the rights of those expressing differing or unpopular opinions.
Love his work even though he’s a big Lib. This is actually quite surprising.
Had to check to make sure it wasn’t babylon bee.
Ken Burns? Well maybe he’s getting a clue out there. Boy I’d love to see him do a documentary on this one!
Listen, off in the distance, is that a banjo I hear?
pluck..pluck...pluck
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