[khawkins]

"Won't someone please think of the billionaires?"

Zuckerberg made his money off of building social networks. He's welcome to retire and divest, but otherwise it's his ethical responsibly to guide their development for the public good. He's going to get flak from every side, but it's his job to pick a side and go through with it, whether it's doing nothing, reforming, or even strangling the app.

[zaptheimpaler]

Social media is a platform. It's like holding Tim Berners Lee responsible for the entirety of the internet. At some point, the invention is far bigger than the person. You are talking about making 1 person responsible for the fate of the entire world. It's simply not realistic. I don't care if he's a billionaire or not, it doesn't make him a omniscient omnipotent god. he's just a person not some abstract representation of wealth inequality and everything wrong with the world.

Anyways, my point was that I do believe the board will be independent of Zuckerbergs oversight because he doesn't want it.

[thesteamboat]

Zuckerberg controls a majority of Facebook's voting stock. While Facebook the platform may have grown in unforeseen ways, Facebook the company remains ultimately (legally) under the control of one man. There is no reasonable comparison between Tim Berners Lee and Mark Zuckerberg when considering how much influence they have over their creations.

[khawkins]

I think you're overstating how people generally feel about Zuckerberg's influence. He clearly has the most power to wield, but I think most understand the nuance that he's limited by tons of competing interests.

I think that part of the problem is that he's trying to appease people who will never be satisfied, who want to control speech and eliminate wrongthink. In doing so, he's creating enemies out of people who don't ask for much, just that the banhammer not be wielded so liberally.

[richwater]

> his ethical responsibly to guide their development for the public good

No, it's not.

If society cannot function without Zuckerberg's intervention, we're doomed anyway.

[krapp]

The "their" in the quoted comment clearly refers to the social media platforms owned by Zuckerberg and not society as a whole.