My answer to Zuckerberg's question on 60 Minutes:

[mobeau69]

Shut the fucking thing down. Start a newspaper if you want to, you fascist pig. You’ve done enough damage to our country.

[luv2fly]

1. Lots of people here love themselves some Facebook

Users ARE Facebook.

[Faux pas]

27. I

use it for the games, keeps me sharp.

[Scrivener7]

2. Totally agree.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Corporate mentality.

If there is an encyclopedia out there, what Facebook did, putting money ahead of public safety, should be the illustrated example of the definition for corporate mentality.

[poli-junkie]

4. Just like Apple & Google acquiesced to the Kremlin

in taking down voter app by opposition candidate — how cowardly and greedy at the same time.

[CloudWatcher]

17. Both Apple and Google had staff in harms way

https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-in-russia-apple-and-google-staff-get-muscled-up-by-the-state/

So when they wouldn’t comply with censorship demands, the Kremlin sent armed men to sit in Google’s Moscow offices for hours. Russian parliament also summoned representatives from both Google's and Apple’s offices to a session on the Navalny app, where they were berated and threatened. The government reportedly named specific Google employees it would prosecute if the company didn’t delete the app, and the same plausibly went for Apple.

Both companies need to pull staff out of Russia.

[renate]

28. I hadn't heard that

Good lord. That’s so awful.

[tinrobot]

5. We have the power to shut it down.

All that takes is for people to stop using it.

[blueinredohio]

6. Amen!

[maxsolomon]

7. How will you promote your Drop Facebook compaign?

You're going to need a global reach. There are 340 million users in India, 140 million in Indonesia, 130 million in Brazil. That's a lot of people to convince.

Maybe on Instagram? No, owned by FB. Maybe on TikTok? Owned by China. YouTube?

Easier if FB learns to stop Russian Trolls from poisoning the well. That would help, but they don't seem to know how.

[tinrobot]

9. Just stating a simple fact, not voluntering...

You're correct that convincing people to leave would be very difficult.

[maxsolomon]

25. It is not a simple fact.

It is a hypothetical. Yes, in theory, it will "go away" if a BILLION people stop using it.

Facebook has to reform; it is not "going away" anytime soon. It's not Sears or KMart.

[rhiannon55]

8. I use Facebook to keep in touch with a wide range of family and friends

and to know what and when events are happening in my community. I would HATE to lose it. In my almost 70 years as a member of a family and a community, it has been the best way ever to feel connected and in the loop. I don't want it shut down, although I'm sure something else would spring up in its place.

I'm just grateful for the connection.

[pazzyanne]

10. + 1 nt

[mobeau69]

11. Telephone works and there's nothing like the lost art of a written letter.

[orleans]

19. i certainly don't have the time or interest to carry on conversations with fb friends

fb is a quick way to say hi, see funny memes, find out who's a grandma/grandpa, and who's coming into town and when.

fast and dirty (as the expression goes)

[USALiberal]

23. Not close to the same! Nt

[mobeau69]

24. Yep, much better. 😎. nt

[Demsrule86]

26. I don't think it is better. Facebook like all technology is neither good nor bad...it is what

you make of it...it has the potential for both. I like Facebook and we have zero chance of shutting it down so maybe we learn to use it for our benefit in politics.

[BlueIdaho]

12. If you're using FB

Be sure to do everything possible to stop them from mining your information. That’s where there money comes from. Limit the time you spend on the platform and don’t allow them to follow you or suggest content or advertisement to you.

Just remember if something is “free” you are the product being sold.

[mobeau69]

13. Yep, there's no free lunch with FB.

[MontanaMama]

14. This.

There’s no free lunch honey.

[certainot]

15. facebook is part of the free speech spectrum. rw radio is not and is a much easier thing

to put down - and a lot of the facebook shit is only effective because it follows crap that was established over years of unchallenged repetition - most of it coming from rw and russian think tanks, channeled out of limbaugh's ass, and amplified by a few hundred other lying racist blowhards

if facebook was smart it would uses their AI to monitor rw radio so they could track down the crap a lot easier

[IronLionZion]

16. He likes money

[thesquanderer]

18. What was the question? n/t

[CloudWatcher]

20. +1

Thank you! Life is too short to spend watching TV

[Rhiannon12866]

21. Here's the 60 Minutes interview for those who missed it:

Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: The 60 Minutes Interview
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017685122

Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw, "conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook." Scott Pelley reports. Aired on 10/03/2021.

[USALiberal]

22. You realize someone will create a new one, correct????? Nt