Mark Zuckerberg - confused and frustrated by US govt behavior

[tsai3904]

As the world becomes more complex and governments everywhere struggle, trust in the internet is more important today than ever.

The internet is our shared space. It helps us connect. It spreads opportunity. It enables us to learn. It gives us a voice. It makes us stronger and safer together.

To keep the internet strong, we need to keep it secure. That's why at Facebook we spend a lot of our energy making our services and the whole internet safer and more secure. We encrypt communications, we use secure protocols for traffic, we encourage people to use multiple factors for authentication and we go out of our way to help fix issues we find in other people's services.

The internet works because most people and companies do the same. We work together to create this secure environment and make our shared space even better for the world.

This is why I've been so confused and frustrated by the repeated reports of the behavior of the US government. When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we're protecting you against criminals, not our own government.

The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they're doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst.

I've called President Obama to express my frustration over the damage the government is creating for all of our future. Unfortunately, it seems like it will take a very long time for true full reform.

So it's up to us -- all of us -- to build the internet we want. Together, we can build a space that is greater and a more important part of the world than anything we have today, but is also safe and secure. I'm committed to seeing this happen, and you can count on Facebook to do our part.

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101301165605491

[thoughtomator]

Interesting commentary from someone who owes everything to spy agency funding and promotion of his company.

[kahless]

This is the same asshole that said "the age of privacy is over" and having "two identities is an example of a lack of integrity". His sister went so far as to advocate the abolition of online anonymity.

I doubt he has matured and is waking up. More likely this is just a marketing ploy to stop the exodus of people that have woken up from continuing to leave Facebook.

[jkr]

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[phill4paul]

I've called President Obama to express my frustration

Lol. Nothing more really needs to be said about someone with a direct line to the president.

[CPUd]

https://www.facebook.com/advertising

[Natural Citizen]

Lol. Nothing more really needs to be said about someone with a direct line to the president.


Just not that into you: ‘Donors’ likelier to get meetings in Congress than ‘constituents’ (http://rt.com/usa/donors-constituents-access-congress-246/)


A new study offers the first scientific proof that members of Congress and top staffers are more amenable to meeting with an identified campaign donor as opposed to one who identifies as a regular constituent.

At random, recipients were sent letters identifying the citizen as either a prospective “donor” or a “constituent.” The letters were identical in all other aspects, and no other information about the individual was provided.

The researchers found that letters from “donors” were much more likely to receive favorable responses for meetings with the Congress member or a top staffer. Letters from “constituents” were more likely to ignored or passed on to a lower-level staff member.

"Here we have a case where [there are] people separate from the member of Congress who may or may not have donated to the member of Congress," researcher Kalla told (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/11/campaign-donations-access_n_4941357.html) The Huffington Post. "All the member of Congress knows is that they're donors. These people are granted special access. So that really flies in the face of the ruling and the reasoning behind Citizens United."

[Warlord]

They dont call it FEDBOOK for nothing. Just saying.

[Contumacious]

Mark Zuckerberg - confused and frustrated by US govt behavior.

The NSA Is Using Facebook to Hack Into Your Computer (http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/the-nsa-is-using-facebook-to-hack-into-your-computer-20140312)

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[muh_roads]

We need something like Tor but new and built from the ground up that has no Government involvement. If everyone ran a node, speed wouldn't be an issue.

The next obstacle after that is how to get around ISP's.

All centralized points we're told we can rely on must end. Everything must be decentralized.

[CPUd]

The internet is weak, yet we keep ignoring this fact. So we see the same thing over and over again, whether it’s because of natural disasters like hurricanes Sandy and Katrina, wars like Syria and Bosnia, deliberate attempts by the government to shut down the internet (most recently in Egypt and Iran), or NSA surveillance.

After Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines last month, several towns were cut off from humanitarian relief because delivering that aid depends on having a reliable communication network. In a country where over 90 percent of the population has access to mobile phones, the implementation of an emergency “mesh” network could have saved lives.

Compared to the “normal” internet — which is based on a few centralized access points or internet service providers (ISPs) — mesh networks have many benefits, from architectural to political. Yet they haven’t really taken off, even though they have been around for some time. I believe it’s time to reconsider their potential, and make mesh networking a reality. Not just because of its obvious benefits, but also because it provides an internet-native model for building community and governance.

But first, the basics: An ad hoc network infrastructure that can be set up by anyone, mesh networks wirelessly connect computers and devices directly to each other without passing through any central authority or centralized organization (like a phone company or an ISP). They can automatically reconfigure themselves according to the availability and proximity of bandwidth, storage, and so on; this is what makes them resistant to disaster and other interference. Dynamic connections between nodes enable packets to use multiple routes to travel through the network, which makes these networks more robust.

Compared to more centralized network architectures, the only way to shut down a mesh network is to shut down every single node in the network.

That’s the vital feature, and what makes it stronger in some ways than the regular internet.

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http://www.wired.com/opinion/2014/01/its-time-to-take-mesh-networks-seriously-and-not-just-for-the-reasons-you-think/

[phill4paul]

Just not that into you: ‘Donors’ likelier to get meetings in Congress than ‘constituents’ (http://rt.com/usa/donors-constituents-access-congress-246/)

I'm shocked and heartbroken. I thought they represented me.

[Occam's Banana]

The US government should be the champion for the internet, [...]

No it shouldn't.


So it's up to us -- all of us -- to build the internet we want.

So which is it? US (as in "US government") or us (as in "all of us")?
Sorry, asshole, but you don't get to have it both ways ...

[Bastiat's The Law]

The state is a blunt instrument Mr. Zuckerberg.

[euphemia]

This is what happens when people want to use the power of government to further their own ends. Zuckerberg has made a truckload of money because of government, and now that the market is telling him he made the wrong choice, he expects government to fix it.

Too late, pal.

[Dianne]

Funny how he became frustrated and confused only after the press releases came out yesterday revealing he is a co-conspirator with the Government.

[HOLLYWOOD]

lol! Government NOW cutting in on your empire FuckerBerg? Too Bad... you thought government tyranny only effects the peons and peasants, but now you're doing PR damage control? :rolleyes:

PS: I see your 'Fascist FedBook' gets the privileged of a Bat-phone line to the waiter occupying the WhiteHouse... Put in a word for me on more writeoffs of FED compliance, don't worry, Washington DC will pass the cost down to the real taxpayers.

[bunklocoempire]

Cyber-bully meet cyber-pussy.

[Anti Federalist]

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