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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns calls Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg an 'enemy of the state' and says he should be JAILED
Daily Mail ^ | Aug 4 | By ARIEL ZILBER

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigtech; censorship; facebook; freespeech; internet; kenburns; privacy; socialmedia; spying; surveillance; technotyranny; zuckerberg
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To: RandFan

So, Ken is a dirtbag. So is Zuck.


61 posted on 08/04/2021 9:24:07 PM PDT by WWG1WWA (Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden )
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To: Colinsky

His Civil War series was especially full of lies, ommissions and slants. For example, he never mentioned the Corwin Amendment. He never mentioned the Tariff or unequal federal government expenditures. He never mentioned the various grievances people had about the federal government usurping ever more power for itself. Imagine making a series about the War Between the States and never once mentioning slavery or using the word slave even once. Imagine how slanted that would be. That would be the mirror image of Ken Burns’ ahistorical propaganda piece.


62 posted on 08/04/2021 10:34:17 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: RandFan

Burns is a rabid hard core leftist. This is like Stalin and Hitler going at it.


63 posted on 08/04/2021 10:47:35 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: HollyB

The State Department does this. Every foreign VIP gets anything and everything scanned and uploaded. Any politician or military officer who interacts with an embassy or mission abroad has a file. Every agency from CIA, DIA, FBI, USAID. DOD, etc. can access it with proper security clearance and, or authorized request.

All visa and passport applicants are loaded into a worldwide police database.

Stay off FB, Twitter or similar tracking programs.


64 posted on 08/04/2021 11:18:23 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: RandFan

Maybe Burns figured out that F*¢kRberg was behind stealing the Dem nomination from Bernie twice. I have fun with the Bernie Bros explaining how they rigged the primaries too.


65 posted on 08/04/2021 11:23:33 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: olivia3boys

Burns lies to you in each documentary. He’s a Leftist radical if not a Communist.


66 posted on 08/05/2021 1:14:00 AM PDT by Az Joe (FREE CHAUVIN!)
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To: proust
I had to look up "lucre".. never heard of it :P







67 posted on 08/05/2021 4:36:39 AM PDT by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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To: RandFan
Burns ISN'T on our side. He's complaining that Suckerberg isn't woke enough. Sure FB censors the right, but not enough for the commie agenda that Burns touts, therefore Suckerberg is impure. A heretic!

The surest sign that communism is a religion is how they go after heretics with more zeal than even what they view as us heathens.

68 posted on 08/05/2021 5:29:45 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: FLT-bird

Yep. I was astonished at the blatant bias in the baseball series and it made me realize all of Ken Burns’ crap is remorseless propaganda. Next he’ll do a series about the increase in the chocolate ration.


69 posted on 08/05/2021 7:36:11 AM PDT by Colinsky
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To: Beowulf9

Perhaps the ghost of Shelby Foote is haunting him.


70 posted on 08/05/2021 7:46:35 AM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: LS

Imagine PBS historian Ken Burns having this viewpoint. I’m astonished.


71 posted on 08/05/2021 8:45:31 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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To: LS

Forgot my /sarcasm tag.


72 posted on 08/05/2021 8:49:03 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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