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posted by martyb on Wednesday April 11 2018, @01:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the One-for-TMB dept.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/04/09/cens-a09.html

Zuckerberg announced Friday that the company will "require people who manage large pages to be verified," meaning they will have to provide the company, and by extension the US government, with their real names and locations.

[...] Zuckerberg added that the move would involve the hiring of thousands of additional censors and "security" personnel. "In order to require verification for all of these pages and advertisers, we will hire thousands of more people," he wrote.


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 11 2018, @01:30AM (4 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 11 2018, @01:30AM (#665172) Journal

    It has also fueled speculation that Zuckerberg, who owns 28 percent of Facebook stock, could be ousted in a boardroom coup.

    I'm no fan of Zuck - but WTF good can come of a coup? They'll trade Zuck for a bunch of suits whose loyalties lie with government, record labels, telcos, military industrial, and who knows what else. They certainly won't put any consumer activists in a boardroom.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Mykl on Wednesday April 11 2018, @02:03AM (3 children)

    by Mykl (1112) on Wednesday April 11 2018, @02:03AM (#665183)

    There will be no coup. Facebook have two tiers of shares - those with voting rights and those without. Zuckerberg owns 60% of the voting shares, so he will remain Supreme Dictator For Lifetm.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @02:19AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @02:19AM (#665190)

      According to a Facebook filing [sec.gov], he only had 59.7% of the votes.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @06:32AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @06:32AM (#665256)

        Maybe he voted .3% of the shares for the other guy.

      • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday April 11 2018, @01:00PM

        by Freeman (732) on Wednesday April 11 2018, @01:00PM (#665341) Journal

        Which still amounts to him owning the majority of the shares.

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