Backlash against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s political advocacy grows

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/13/backlash-against-facebook-founder-mark-zuckerbergs-political-advocacy-grows/



The backlash against Mark Zuckerberg’s political advocacy group is gathering steam with a campaign to pick off many of its high-profile Silicon Valley backers.

Activists on Monday identified the next batch of figures they hope will defect following the departure of Elon Musk and David Sacks, adding fresh pressure to Zuckerberg’s nascent Fwd.us organisation.

Musk and Sacks quit last week after accusations the Facebook founder’s political lobby group, set up to push for immigration reform, had made an unholy alliance with anti-environmental politicians.

“It’s time for other tech industry luminaries to make it clear where they stand. Follow Elon Musk’s example and resign from Fwd.us,” said Credo, the advocacy arm of Credo Mobile, in a petition which by Monday afternoon had 32,000 signatures.

[Berlum]

1. Let me tell you about the very rich (1%). They are different from you and me." - F.S.F.

"...They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.

"They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different." - F.Scott Fitzgerald

[el_bryanto]

2. Was he talking about people born to money or people who earned money through innovation?

Isn't Zuckerberg in the latter class?

Bryant

[CBGLuthier]

3. Shhh, don't let facts get in the way of a good quote

Soon they will tell you that since he wentoto Harvard he already is of the elite and to be despised.

[GeorgeGist]

4. Earned?

Profit is unearned income.

[el_bryanto]

7. No. Profit is the difference between how much it costs to make something and how

much you can sell it for; it's the foundation of capitalism.

Bryant

[reformist2]

6. Remember how Facebook started...

I'd be hard pressed to call a website that was basically a knock-off of "Hot or Not?" - with comparisons of women to farm animals, no less - an innovation.

[el_bryanto]

8. I think if it had stayed that, it probably wouldn't be as popular as it is now

I mean lots and lots of people have facebook accounts. It's been pretty successful.

Bryant

[hatrack]

5. Good, glad to hear it, and hope more defectors are on the way

You'd think that an appeal like this would have some clout in Silicon Valley, but who knows . . .