Posted on 10/01/2019 6:30:34 PM PDT by RightGeek
Mark Zuckerberg and Elizabeth Warren are clashing over her plan to break up the tech titans — a war of words that could test the limits of Silicon Valley’s liberal leanings.
The Facebook CEO was caught railing against Warren and her proposal to smash the internet’s virtual monopolies — Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple — in leaked audio of open meetings with employees this summer released Tuesday by The Verge.
“You have someone like Elizabeth Warren who thinks that the right answer is to break up the companies … if she gets elected president, then I would bet that we will have a legal challenge, and I would bet that we will win the legal challenge,” Zuckerberg said.
He continued, “Does that still suck for us? Yeah. I mean, I don’t want to have a major lawsuit against our own government. That’s not like the position you want to be in. We care about our country, we want to work with our government to do good things. But look, at the end of the day, if someone’s going to try to threaten something that existential, you go to the mat and you fight.”
Warren hit back on Twitter Tuesday, saying, “What would really ‘suck’ is if we don’t fix a corrupt system that lets giant companies like Facebook engage in illegal anticompetitive practices, stomp on consumer privacy rights, and repeatedly fumble their responsibility to protect our democracy.”
Republican strategist Patrick Griffin says Zuckerberg is right — “Warren being president would suck for every business, small or large, in this country.”
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
“It’s just that breaking up these companies, whether it’s Facebook or Google or Amazon, is not actually going to solve the issues,” Zuckerberg said. “And, you know, it doesn’t make election interference less likely. It makes it more likely because now the companies can’t coordinate and work together.”
From my reading, it looks like the major social media platforms have at the minimum, TALKED about coordinating election interference. My bet is they have divided the workload, each working a different strategy. At some point they will compare notes, adopt the appropriate strategy and then deploy it across all platforms.
Mark Z is a sold out liberal until it impacts his business. He wouldn’t care if it impacts the rest of us.
He is just another hypocrite.
Did the headline actually say that “Liz Warren shows her crack” or do I need to put my glasses on?
When it comes to commie Warren, I think not having my glasses on is the ONLY way to keep my eyes from bleeding and my head exploding.
I expect a lot of flack over the proposed Wealth Tax. It would be a big hit on some very rich ‘rats.
Hilarious. They come for his, and Zuckerberg suddenly isn’t all that woke.
I’m not siding with these clowns because I hate all liberals.
He's on that short list. From his DC hearings, I got the impression that he's very self-aware that he's in a bubble that affects his perspective. Also, he expressed admiration that Ted Cruz stood above the others in his intellectual skills. Add to that, FB was very good about our being there when our side was down for a few months.
“Did the headline actually say that “Liz Warren shows her crack” or do I need to put my glasses on?”
I would cover my eyes
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