Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO said he ‘felt disgust’ after Pres. Trump’s controversial comments about George Floyd’s death.
Zuckerberg’s comments came during a meeting with company employees who faced backlash for not dealing with Trump’s “when the looting starts, shooting starts” statement last week. Facebook didn’t delete the comments on the platform and that brought down their comfort space.
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So let me get this straight. The employees want the freedom to stage a walkout and use their freedom of speech to voice displeasure with Zuckerberg, but they think it’s ok to squelch the freedom of speech of Pres. Trump? Regardless of how crazy his posts are, he has the same freedoms as everyone else. If you don’t like it, don’t read them or mute him, it’s really easy snowflakes.
[Mirror-Sun [2]] “How to handle this post from the president has been very tough,” the Facebook founder reportedly said.
“It’s been something that I’ve been struggling with basically all day, ever since I woke up. … This has been personally pretty wrenching for me.
“My first reaction… was just disgust. This is not how I think we want our leaders to show up during this time. This is a moment that calls for unity and calmness and empathy for people who are struggling.”
However, Zuckerberg reportedly continued to say that it was decided Trump’s comments about “when the looting starts, shooting starts” did not break any of the social media giant’s guidelines.
As a result, the tech billionaire told his employees those guidelines could be changed going forward.
One thing Mark knows so well as an employer is that everyone is replaceable, they are a lot more capable people and mentally well-balanced people that are ready to take that big paycheck. Most importantly, Mark has read 230, a special protection from the Clinton administration to social media companies. If anyone was conscious in 1997, we all remember that social media, internet were still babies at the time and posed no threat whatsoever, they were essentially new toys, and the protection made a lot of sense then. We’ve come a long way since then, 230 is obviously outdated and probably will be revised if silicon valley doesn’t straighten up its act like now.
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Mark is a smart guy, he understands that Google, Twitter, Facebook get to do what they do because of 230, however, they have violated 230 for years a million times over, you are a public forum for the exchange of ideas, you are not a publisher or fact-checker or a political party, that’s in violation of 230, Mark understands that and is treading carefully and urging his colleagues to do so, his stupid liberal employees don’t understand that they have a job because of 230, it can be taken away.
So their staged walkout is nothing next to the law that allows them to have a job in silicon valley, the mark can replace all of them because he knows they are in violation. have we forgotten when the U.S government had to set Microsoft right in the late 90s when they thought they were God?
Sometimes one needs a reminder who the boss is.
This piece was written by Wayne Dupree on June 1, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com [4] and is used by permission.