The Dignity Wraith comes for Zuckerberg
That sounds like a particularly dark Philip Roth story.
In a wide-ranging question-and-answer session with Meta employees on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive, defended recent changes he had made by loosening restrictions on online speech and ending diversity initiatives, and doubled down on embracing President Trump’s new administration.
“I want to be clear, after the last several years, we now have an opportunity to have a productive partnership with the United States government,” Mr. Zuckerberg said, according to a recording of the meeting shared with The New York Times. “We’re going to take that.”
Mr. Zuckerberg, 40, said it was “fundamental” for Meta — the world’s biggest social media company with Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp — to be on better terms with governments around the world.
“The government can sort of be actively opposing you, trying to get in the way and add a lot of friction, or can be actively trying to help you break down barriers to help you,” he said. “It’s the right thing to do.”
On the other hand, when you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose.
I can’t believe this schmuck is still barely 40 years old. I swear I’ve been hearing about him for half my life, and will probably have to keep hearing about him for what remains of it, although even now various malcontents are out there somewhere, thinking about him and Musk and the rest of them, and brooding about how even billionaires are still made of flesh and blood, not iron or steel.