Former Business Partner Of Mark Zuckerberg States Facebook Needs To Be Broken Up

May 10. 2019

This is a follow up to the November 14, 2018 article "Facebook Violated United Nations Law And California Statutes In Firing Trump Supporter For Not Voting Liberal." In the article I stated, "As much as left leaning Facebook, who also owns Instagram (and should not have been allowed to buy it), claims to be so tolerant and in favor of human rights, their founder is a greedy little thief who stole the site from the Winklevoss twins at Harvard (property rights violation) and is actively violating the U.S. Constitution regarding the right to free speech, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in reference to the freedom of expression."

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg

This week, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is being slammed by his former partner, Chris Hughes, and with good reason. This week Hughes said the same thing I have been stating on here for years. Two-days ago Hughes said, "It is time to break up Facebook. Mark's power is unprecedented and un-American...Mark's influence is staggering, far beyond that of anyone else in the private sector or in government. He controls three core communications platforms — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — that billions of people use every day. He sets the rules for how to distinguish violent and incendiary speech from the merely offensive, and he can choose to shut down a competitor by acquiring, blocking or copying it."

Many witnessed as Zuckerberg ripped off preexisting Snap Chat, willfully infringing their copyrights to create Instagram Live, in a bid to corner the market and run them out of business. That is known as a monopoly. He is committing antitrust violations and it is illegal. I was not surprised, as Zuckerberg didn't even create Facebook, he stole it, as seen in the movie "The Social Network."

STORY SOURCE

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes says Mark Zuckerberg is too powerful and the government should force the 'dangerous' social network to break up

Published: 10:03 EDT, 9 May 2019 | Updated: 10:44 EDT, 9 May 2019 - Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has called for federal regulators to break up the company, saying that CEO Mark Zuckerberg is too powerful and that the company is an effective monopoly. 'It is time to break up Facebook,' Hughes, who was Zuckerberg's Harvard roommate, wrote in a searing op-ed for the New York Times on Thursday. 'Mark's power is unprecedented and un-American.'

Hughes, 35, helped build Facebook from the beginning, and was a key creator in products like the social network's New Feed. He left the company in 2007 to join Barack Obama's first presidential campaign, and says he liquidated his Facebook stock in 2012. Now, Hughes says he has watched with horror as the company he helped create has grown into a behemoth that threatens to crush free speech and stifle competitive innovation...

He says that Facebook should have never been allowed to purchase competing platforms Instagram and WhatsApp, which combined give the company command over 80 per cent of global social media revenue, according to Hughes' estimate. Hughes believes that nothing short of forcing Facebook to split up and sell off Instagram and WhatsApp would be effective at reining the company in...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk

It’s Time to Break Up Facebook

By Chris Hughes

May 9, 2019 - The last time I saw Mark Zuckerberg was in the summer of 2017, several months before the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke. We met at Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., office and drove to his house, in a quiet, leafy neighborhood. We spent an hour or two together while his toddler daughter cruised around. We talked politics mostly, a little about Facebook, a bit about our families. When the shadows grew long, I had to head out. I hugged his wife, Priscilla, and said goodbye to Mark.

Since then, Mark’s personal reputation and the reputation of Facebook have taken a nose-dive. The company’s mistakes — the sloppy privacy practices that dropped tens of millions of users’ data into a political consulting firm’s lap; the slow response to Russian agents, violent rhetoric and fake news; and the unbounded drive to capture ever more of our time and attention — dominate the headlines. It’s been 15 years since I co-founded Facebook at Harvard, and I haven’t worked at the company in a decade. But I feel a sense of anger and responsibility. Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook, says the company is so big and powerful that it threatens our democracy.

Mark is still the same person I watched hug his parents as they left our dorm’s common room at the beginning of our sophomore year. He is the same person who procrastinated studying for tests, fell in love with his future wife while in line for the bathroom at a party and slept on a mattress on the floor in a small apartment years after he could have afforded much more. In other words, he’s human. But it’s his very humanity that makes his unchecked power so problematic.

Mark’s influence is staggering, far beyond that of anyone else in the private sector or in government. He controls three core communications platforms — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — that billions of people use every day. Facebook’s board works more like an advisory committee than an overseer, because Mark controls around 60 percent of voting shares. Mark alone can decide how to configure Facebook’s algorithms to determine what people see in their News Feeds, what privacy settings they can use and even which messages get delivered. He sets the rules for how to distinguish violent and incendiary speech from the merely offensive, and he can choose to shut down a competitor by acquiring, blocking or copying it...

https://www.nytimes.com

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