Mike Luckovich for October 06, 2021

As an analogy, this one’s not, imo, all that impressive. Facebook users have a FAR more complex relationship to Facebook than drivers have to cars. Were I to try this analogy, I’d probably work on wondering why the FB car was venting CO into the passenger compartment and swerving into another lane without driver input.

Cry me a river, Zucky. You zuck.

Whatever ideals Facebook might (might) have had in its beginnings appear to have been lost in the pursuit of corporate success, market dominance, and of course profit.

The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That—with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word ’success’—is our national disease. —William James

Why should he be treated differently than other CEOs or their companies that contribute to the Congressional Welfare Fund?

You/We/Us have allowed a monster to develop.. but in fairness there are many others that snuck in the same way.. think Fox News and so many right wing talk shows. The Genie is out of the bottle folk.

Oh Suckenberg Oh Suckenburg

Who could have known that “Mark” as in “Mark of the Beast” had a last name???

For corporate psychopaths too much is never enough.

Ever wonder where the people of Cambridge Analytica went to work? Facebook would be a good place to start.

Where’s the “Student Driver” sign ?

You know, maybe, Facebook will implode like Mike’s brakeless SUV, but I doubt it. Social media provides a great business model, like radio and TV, and newspapers before that. Give your audience something to entice them into using your service and sell ads along the way. Simple. And it works. It’s a tried and true sales technique. Maybe the government will tighten the screws on Facebook and others and force them into a more enlightened business model. But, I suspect the marketplace will steer social media the way it should go. I know those that have dropped Facebook. I hardly use it. Once in a while, a friend sends an interesting photo or story. And, their Facebook Live has given new life to my church ministry. But, I rarely see any ads in the Facebook I use.

As for Instagram being bad for kids, where are the parents? We have parents that are fighting for the right to decide if their young should be forced to wear a mask against Covid. Why aren’t they fighting just as strongly to keep they young from the ills of Instagram?

It was possible to break up AT&T into half a dozen “Baby Bells” because they each served a particular geographic region. I’m not sure how you’d do the same for Facebook, which is worldwide. Maybe force them to spin off some of their service-specific acquisitions: Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus VR, LiveRail, and Threadsy. Or give the FCC regulatory power over them, so as to be able to respond quickly to changing conditions. (Internet law was essentially trapped in amber somewhere around 1990, and things have changed since then, to put it mildly.)

Maybe the neoliberal order of deregulation and tax havens SHOULD be over, Zuck hasn’t got a spaceship deduction. What’s he doing with all has swag?

He should be defenestrated from the top floor of his building.

No moral compass!

We realize that congress, by making corporations people and requiring them to not fail their investors, … THAT congress … has created, by law, the situation that requires continual profits and growth. Not saying FB & Zuck don’t have a responsibility. But that IS the system we’re working in and Zuck is driving the car. (And he’s already lied to us at least twice.) FIX THE FOOKIN LAWS! Plus: slap FB hard. Really hard.