# Mark Zuckerberg is a fucking sociopath - seriously, just delete that shit already! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 8, 2019, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159 "2019-11-08T01:31:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159/81 "2019-11-09T03:42:18Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Fuck your tone policing, you prick. I wasn’t tone policing. I was pointing at you and laughing. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159/82 "2019-11-09T06:47:51Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I’m only saying this because I care - there are a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market today that are just as tasty as the real thing. > [@Ambivalid](#): > > Man, I’d be really curious to see if you look strung out irl. I bet you do. Im betting its alcohol talking. If he tried to talk to people in real life like he talks to people here, he would be getting beaten up all the time. If he has a wife and kids I feel for them. ---
**Author:** ![Deltree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Deltree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deltree)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159/83 "2019-11-09T07:16:52Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Fuck you, you fucking losers (who wanna call me out). What kind of recreational pharmaceuticals does it take to make a hysterical fruitcake like you? ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159/84 "2019-11-09T08:52:28Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > What you call “the system” has been known to others as “democracy” combined with “liberty.” For someone who likes to pat himself on the back because of superior intellect you miss obvious truths and ramifications. I think this is the stupidest post I’ve ever seen from you; and that’s saying something! The system includes gerrymandering and voter suppression. _“Democracy and liberty — get over it.”_ The system includes overriding, by 5-4 Scotus vote, laws regulating campaign finance. _“Democracy and liberty — get over it.”_ The system includes de-funding of public education. _“Democracy and liberty — get over it.”_ The system includes election interference by our enemies. _“Democracy and liberty — get over it.”_ … I could go on, but what’s the point? Find a sixth-grader to explain the above examples; then come back. All kidding aside: Give me some help here, Dopers. _Has **octopus** ever posted anything intelligent in all his time here?_ ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159/85 "2019-11-09T11:34:09Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > All kidding aside: Give me some help here, Dopers. _Has **octopus** ever posted anything intelligent in all his time here?_ > [@White supremacists are the biggest ideological threat to American lives, by far](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-supremacists-are-the-biggest-ideological-threat-to-american-lives-by-far/838449/254): > > …the current administration [has cut aide to the countries](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-trump/trump-cuts-aid-to-central-american-countries-as-migrant-crisis-deepens-idUSKCN1RC013) that need help with a “fundumental restructure.” Do you consider that a prudent move or a problematic one? > > The current administration has dropped the number of refugees it will accept from 100,000 to 15,000. There are over [25.9 million refugees in the world, 3.5 million people are seeking asylum.](https://www.unhcr.org/ph/figures-at-a-glance) Do you consider only accepting 15,000 people to be a noble and considerate ideal? Do you think you could do better, or is that a number you feel comfortable with? > [@White supremacists are the biggest ideological threat to American lives, by far](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-supremacists-are-the-biggest-ideological-threat-to-american-lives-by-far/838449/256): > > I think we can take in and assimilate more than 15,000. The US alone probably could, if fear mongering subsided, take in that 3.5 million. > [@...so why hasn't Elmore been banned yet?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-hasnt-elmore-been-banned-yet/828645/39): > > Banquet Bear has it right. Huey walked into a trap. When the usual gang piles on and it’s no secret that’s what they do and it’s many vs one, by the very nature of the fight the one is going to come across as unhinged and overly combative. It’s a nasty nasty tactic and I was surprised that that tactic worked outside the Pit; I am flabbergasted it worked in the Pit. …I don’t agree with a lot of \*\*octopus’s \*\*politics, but I’ve never found him/her to be unreasonable in debate and able to be convinced with evidence to be able to change their position. And **octopus** , as well as **asahi** , supported me when I went out-to-bat for Huey. I’ll never forget that. That was a very, very rough time for me and both of them reached out privately and helped me through it and I’ll never ever forget that. I’ll always appreciate both of them no matter how annoying others may find them 😃 So the answer to your question is an unqualified “yes.” ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159/86 "2019-11-09T12:34:19Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Fuck you, you smarmy \*\*nt. > > Let’s start with the basics: almost everyone agrees that Facebook engages in deceptive business practices. Let’s consider how they mislead their own advertisers: > > [Facebook accused of misleading advertisers, then trying to hide it - CNET](https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-accused-of-misleading-advertisers-then-trying-to-hide-it/) > > Or let’s consider how they deceive their own users: > > [FTC Imposes $5 Billion Penalty and Sweeping New Privacy Restrictions on Facebook | Federal Trade Commission](https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/07/ftc-imposes-5-billion-penalty-sweeping-new-privacy-restrictions) None of which were the topic of your OP, which was about Facebook refusing to scrub and fact-check political ads. Facebook has no obligation to allocate any of it’s resources toward fact checking any statements, memes, ads or random bullshit posted by politicians, Russian Trolls, or emotionally unstable wackjobs like yourself. Further, the government shouldn’t be wasting it’s time trying to pressure a company into suppressing free speech in any capacity. Talk about the first steps of a dystopian society… I don’t mind targeted advertising. I’d rather see ads that are relevant to me, than useless junk, diabetes medicine, kids’ cereal or whatever. If I have to be exposed to ads, it’s better if they are useful or at least related to my interests. But I can see how disturbed freaks with strange kinks and disturbing search histories might be bothered by the ads they’re exposed to. Otherwise, I can’t understand why people get so twisted about the type of data fed to and tracked by internet companies and social media. To your second and third points, if Facebook is lying to advertisers and investors, then there are civil and criminal laws in place for dealing with such things. It doesn’t require Congressional hearings or blanket insults fired at thousands of strangers on message boards. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159/87 "2019-11-09T12:43:21Z")
I don’t believe or trust ads at all, of any kind. They utterly don’t effect me other than to irritate the hell out of me. I realize that many people do watch and actually enjoy ads, and may be gullible enough to believe what’s being said, but there are ads everywhere, not just FB. What are you going to do, squash all advertising? Facebook ain’t the problem, it’s a much, much deeper thing. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159/88 "2019-11-09T13:19:52Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > Talk about the first steps of a dystopian society… > I don’t mind targeted advertising. I’d rather see ads that are relevant to me, than useless junk, diabetes medicine, kids’ cereal or whatever. If I have to be exposed to ads, it’s better if they are useful or at least related to my interests. …except we aren’t talking about targeted advertising. [We are talking about **micro-targeted dark propaganda.**](https://www.joe.co.uk/news/brexit-facebook-adverts-192164) Once again, as Jack from Twitter said "Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-based optimization of messaging and micro-targeting, unchecked misleading information, and deep fakes. All at increasing **velocity, sophistication, and overwhelming scale**. **We don’t know what they are doing.** Those Brexit ads that said stuff like [“Britain’s new border is with Syria and Iraq”](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-44966969), most of us didn’t even know they existed until two years after they were deployed. The advert with a bullfighter that said “These are animals, not entertainment, stop animal abuse, VOTE LEAVE” were micro-targeted at “animal lovers”. You can’t combat that kind of messaging. Not when **you don’t know that that messaging even existed.** Not when you\*\* can’t match the funding provided by billionaires and sophistication of organizations like Cambridge Analytica\*\*. Both Brexit and the last US Election were won in the tightest of margins. And if you are rich enough you can buy the information and you can create the right algorithms to nudge those margins just enough to win the majority vote. Twitter did absolutely the right thing when they banned political advertising on its platform. Its all happening too fast, and its happening at overwhelming scale, we need to take a pause so we can figure out exactly what is going on. Facebook should absolutely follow Twitters lead. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159/89 "2019-11-09T14:01:01Z")
I just read that both Facebook and Youtube are working to remove any reference to the whistle blower. Twitter has said naming him is not a violation of the terms of their service. All these tech companies need some rules to play by. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159/90 "2019-11-09T14:05:43Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > …except we aren’t talking about targeted advertising. [We are talking about **micro-targeted dark propaganda.**](https://www.joe.co.uk/news/brexit-facebook-adverts-192164). . . [such as ads] micro-targeted at "animal lovers I’ll have to think about this more. Perhaps I am just so used to ignoring political ads on Facebook that I don’t really seem bothered or affected by them. There’s something seriously wrong with people who get their political news from Facebook, I think. But I don’t know if sheltering them from their own stupidity, naivety and impressionability is the answer. I think society is generally too quick to demand that the government step in to “fix” things, and I am perhaps overly cautious when those demands teeter on infringing on things like free speech. > [@](#): > > Twitter did absolutely the right thing when they banned political advertising on its platform. Its all happening too fast, and its happening at overwhelming scale, we need to take a pause so we can figure out exactly what is going on. Facebook should absolutely follow Twitters lead. I don’t disagree with this. Twitter surely did the _right_ thing; perhaps the _best_ thing. But having the government jump in and attempt to bully Zuckerburg (or any private person or corporation) into taking a particular course of action isn’t the best approach. Especially when, as you rightly point out, we haven’t figured out “exactly what is going on” so we can’t possibly know exactly how to combat it. One thing I am certain of, is that attacking, insulting, and shaming people who 1) find Facebook useful; 2) are not influenced by stupid memes or other propaganda; 3) aren’t ashamed or paranoid about the “private” information collected by internet-based business and social media is definitely not the best course of action. Someone such as the OP who prides him(her?)self as someone who gets politically involved and tries so hard to convince others of his/her particular views should take that into consideration. You’re never going to convince anyone with that technique, and are probably doing more harm than good. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159/91 "2019-11-09T14:13:56Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > You all can go to hell; never complain again, dumb bitch fuckers! You people are fucking slaves. Hello, I guess we’re being Mr. Hyde today. In your Dr. Jekyll personality, you support centrist corporate tools like Biden, and your main complaint with Bloomberg is that you wish he’d have run in 2016. Seriously, are there two people fighting over control of your Doper identity? It frequently seems that way. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159/92 "2019-11-09T15:14:25Z")
Lemme give it a try, with 98% less rage than the OP: > [@saje](#): > > I also have all the ads blocked, I take every “news” item posted with a giant handful of salt, and take into consideration the source. If something piques my interest/worry/outrage I will go and research whatever it is. I’m not a slave or a sheep, TYVM. I’m a reasonably educated consumer taking marginal risks with my private info in return for an online platform I like. The problem isn’t you. The problem is that there are tens of millions of Americans who uncritically absorb the stuff on Facebook. And it affects their voting. > [@D\_Odds](#): > > Also, while I don’t want to seem a Zuckerberg apologist, why are we blaming the medium rather than the people creating and posting the lies? I guess we _could_ blame the Russian bots, but there’s not a whole lot we can do about them directly. > [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > Why do you feel it is Facebook’s responsibility to filter _anything_? If people are so easily fooled or persuaded by memes and other garbage they see on Facebook, that isn’t Zuckerberg’s problem to solve. This is like blaming McDonald’s for selling unhealthy food. It’s not their responsibility to ensure people are eating healthy. If a hostile power were paying McDonalds for access to their French fry supply and distribution network, and they were using that access to sneak opiods into the fries, I’d be pretty upset if McDonalds was just shrugging and saying it wasn’t any of its business to police what got into its food. (An overwrought analogy, but best I could do at the moment.) > [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Facebook is a want, not a need. Get over it, already. Agreed that FB is a want, not a need. I find it to actually be an unpleasant environment, and have probably spent less than half an hour on FB in the past year. But while I can take or leave Facebook, there’s no way I can walk away from its pernicious effects on our democracy. Those affect me whether I ever go near a computer, tablet, or smart phone. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159/93 "2019-11-09T15:52:52Z")
> [@Banquet Bear](#): > > Twitter did absolutely the right thing when they banned political advertising on its platform. Its all happening too fast, and its happening at overwhelming scale, we need to take a pause so we can figure out exactly what is going on. Facebook should absolutely follow Twitters lead. Is actual advertising the problem? Or is it all of the fake news, viral crap-posts–many of which are from fake accounts created specifically to spread disinformation? If it’s the latter, how does Twitter plan to combat that? If it’s the former, then why waste time with Zuckerburg at all? The federal government has more power to modify campaign laws than it does to dictate what type of advertisements Facebook is allowed to accept, and how much effort and money and resources they need to divert to vet the statements made in those ads. They could pass a law forbidding political advertising and campaigning on social media altogether. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159/94 "2019-11-09T16:55:49Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > I don’t disagree with this. Twitter surely did the _right_ thing; perhaps the _best_ thing. I said earlier in another post, Twitter solution has the particular elegance of not requiring them to be the ones who pass judgement on the veracity of the advertising or having to choose who they can trust to do it. Just no political ads, period. > [@](#): > > Is actual advertising the problem? Or is it all of the fake news, viral crap-posts–many of which are from fake accounts created specifically to spread disinformation? If it’s the latter, how does Twitter plan to combat that? If it’s the former, then why waste time with Zuckerburg at all? The federal government has more power to modify campaign laws than it does to dictate what type of advertisements Facebook is allowed to accept, and how much effort and money and resources they need to divert to vet the statements made in those ads. They could pass a law forbidding political advertising and campaigning on social media altogether. Actually they CAN’T do that last one, that’s why they decide to try and shame Zuck into it (thus themselves using the tools of social media culture). Otherwise, yes, those are problems that would remain even in the absence of the official overt ads. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159/95 "2019-11-09T17:15:43Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I’m only saying this because I care - there are a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market today that are just as tasty as the real thing. Decaf??? HERESY!!! ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159/96 "2019-11-09T17:17:11Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > I think this is the stupidest post I’ve ever seen from you; and that’s saying something! > > The system includes gerrymandering and voter suppression. _“Democracy and liberty — get over it.”_ > The system includes overriding, by 5-4 Scotus vote, laws regulating campaign finance. _“Democracy and liberty — get over it.”_ > The system includes de-funding of public education. _“Democracy and liberty — get over it.”_ > The system includes election interference by our enemies. _“Democracy and liberty — get over it.”_ > … > > I could go on, but what’s the point? Find a sixth-grader to explain the above examples; then come back. > > All kidding aside: Give me some help here, Dopers. _Has **octopus** ever posted anything intelligent in all his time here?_ No. Not once, not ever. Not ever in the history of ever. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159/97 "2019-11-09T17:19:40Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Lemme give it a try, with 98% less rage than the OP: > The problem isn’t you. The problem is that there are tens of millions of Americans who uncritically absorb the stuff on Facebook. And it affects their voting. > > I guess we _could_ blame the Russian bots, but there’s not a whole lot we can do about them directly. > > If a hostile power were paying McDonalds for access to their French fry supply and distribution network, and they were using that access to sneak opiods into the fries, I’d be pretty upset if McDonalds was just shrugging and saying it wasn’t any of its business to police what got into its food. > > (An overwrought analogy, but best I could do at the moment.) > Agreed that FB is a want, not a need. I find it to actually be an unpleasant environment, and have probably spent less than half an hour on FB in the past year. > > But while I can take or leave Facebook, there’s no way I can walk away from its pernicious effects on our democracy. Those affect me whether I ever go near a computer, tablet, or smart phone. This person makes a lot of sense. Listen to him. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159/98 "2019-11-09T17:38:50Z")
“The problem,” said the theater manager gravely, “is not the people who keep screaming ‘_FIRE!!!_’ It’s the gullible idiots who believe it, and trample each other to death trying to escape.” ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159/99 "2019-11-09T18:13:47Z")
That’s a great analogy. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159/100 "2019-11-09T18:17:07Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > Is actual advertising the problem? Or is it all of the fake news, viral crap-posts–many of which are from fake accounts created specifically to spread disinformation? If it’s the latter, how does Twitter plan to combat that? If it’s the former, then why waste time with Zuckerburg at all? The federal government has more power to modify campaign laws than it does to dictate what type of advertisements Facebook is allowed to accept, and how much effort and money and resources they need to divert to vet the statements made in those ads. They could pass a law forbidding political advertising and campaigning on social media altogether. They could pass any law they like. The president wouldn’t sign it and the courts wouldn’t uphold it. This is one of the top reasons to keep the Republicans in power. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-fucking-sociopath-seriously-just-delete-that-shit-already/843159.md?page=6)