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Resolved: Mark Zuckerberg Is the Most Evil Person Alive Today

He is literally Satan incarnate.
Electric Idiotic Menage
  04/26/16
"As I look around the world, I'm starting to see people...
Electric Idiotic Menage
  04/27/16
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Electric Idiotic Menage
  10/23/16
"I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and d...
sable cerebral library
  10/23/16
And this may well be insufficiently strong. He could well be...
Electric Idiotic Menage
  04/26/16
he is the worst
floppy piazza
  04/26/16
awful person. very sad.
Puce submissive french chef
  04/26/16
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abnormal base
  04/26/16
MFCR And he's not even close to being finished.
Electric Idiotic Menage
  04/26/16
Do you think this was Zuck's intention, or did he just get c...
floppy piazza
  04/26/16
latter
Violent talented garrison yarmulke
  04/26/16
So then how much blame to ascribe to him? And do you think ...
floppy piazza
  04/26/16
blaming him is dumb. he is an aspie programmer that just wan...
Violent talented garrison yarmulke
  04/26/16
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abnormal base
  04/26/16
i agree. if he didn't have agency before, he certainly has ...
floppy piazza
  04/26/16
(said the rat face man)
Violent talented garrison yarmulke
  04/26/16
I think he stumbled into it -- this wasn't some evil plot he...
Electric Idiotic Menage
  04/26/16
...
abnormal base
  04/26/16
I always got the impression that he had some amount of since...
Tantric cracking marketing idea queen of the night
  04/26/16
what harm has facebook done to humanity?
Aromatic Swollen Black Woman National Security Agency
  04/26/16
flame
Electric Idiotic Menage
  04/26/16
what happened
Stirring demanding ratface
  04/26/16
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federal parlour fortuitous meteor
  04/26/16
"Person" might be a stretch.
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bat-shit-crazy tripping dingle berry school
  04/26/16
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Electric Idiotic Menage
  04/26/16
Hes up there but Soros is far more evil
Carnelian marvelous alpha turdskin
  04/26/16
titcr
hateful maroon azn legal warrant
  04/26/16
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Saffron domesticated travel guidebook
  04/26/16
Wut
vibrant rusted nursing home pozpig
  04/27/16
he's more insufferable than anything else. the globalist sh...
Lascivious Coldplay Fan
  04/26/16
it goes deeper than that, though. his vision for his com...
Electric Idiotic Menage
  04/26/16
...
abnormal base
  04/26/16
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mahogany area
  04/26/16
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Electric Idiotic Menage
  10/23/16
The most hilarious part being his pledges to maybe give away...
medicated turquoise circlehead station
  04/26/16
...
abnormal base
  04/26/16
>> Larry Page made a similar move a few years ago so h...
floppy piazza
  04/26/16
...
abnormal base
  04/26/16
that's without even getting started on the privacy issues re...
floppy piazza
  04/26/16
“I don’t understand. Help me understand. I prithee. Comprehe...
Electric Idiotic Menage
  04/26/16
...
mahogany area
  04/26/16
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Electric Idiotic Menage
  04/27/16
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laughsome underhanded therapy
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territorial institution
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useless potus state
  04/26/16
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abnormal base
  04/26/16
he is actively trying to bring the dystopian cyber punk futu...
pink exhilarant office mood
  04/26/16
...
Electric Idiotic Menage
  04/26/16
chickens little ITT
Grizzly anal reading party
  04/26/16
Its bad to impregnate that woman, but the most evil thing ev...
Know-it-all center messiness
  04/27/16
I mean, he married a fug AZN who kept her name, but that har...
hairraiser infuriating resort masturbator
  04/27/16
Globalist Kike Lecturing You About "Global Community&qu...
Electric Idiotic Menage
  04/27/16
Agree that Facebook is shitty but how did it destroy humanit...
Razzle ocher striped hyena public bath
  04/27/16
first step towards forcing everyone to use real identity on ...
Rose Wild Spot Dragon
  04/27/16
Will xo be like the matrix when that happens
Razzle ocher striped hyena public bath
  04/27/16
yep
Rose Wild Spot Dragon
  04/27/16
Facebook Plans New Stock Class to Solidify Mark Zuckerberg’s...
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Date: April 26th, 2016 2:19 PM
Author: Electric Idiotic Menage

He is literally Satan incarnate.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350339)



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Date: April 27th, 2016 9:42 AM
Author: Electric Idiotic Menage

"As I look around the world, I'm starting to see people and nations turning inward, against the idea of a connected world and a global community," Zuckerberg said. "I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people. I hear them calling for blocking free expression, for slowing immigration, for reducing trade, and in some cases even for cutting access to the internet. It takes courage to choose hope over fear."

"And absolutely *nothing* I just mentioned is motivated in *any* way by my desire to be Emperor of the World," the Facebook founder added.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30356364)



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Date: October 23rd, 2016 2:15 PM
Author: Electric Idiotic Menage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#31709742)



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Date: October 23rd, 2016 2:17 PM
Author: sable cerebral library

"I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people. I hear them calling for blocking free expression, for slowing immigration, for reducing trade, and in some cases even for cutting access to the internet. It takes courage to choose hope over fear."

So take away the ability of people to BLOCK the people they don't like on FB. See how that works. lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#31709755)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 2:21 PM
Author: Electric Idiotic Menage

And this may well be insufficiently strong. He could well be the most evil person in centuries or of all time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350345)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 2:34 PM
Author: floppy piazza

he is the worst

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350429)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 2:35 PM
Author: Puce submissive french chef

awful person. very sad.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350433)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 2:48 PM
Author: abnormal base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350522)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:02 PM
Author: Electric Idiotic Menage

MFCR

And he's not even close to being finished.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350612)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:08 PM
Author: floppy piazza

Do you think this was Zuck's intention, or did he just get caught up in this social media storm such that its now so intertwined with his existence that he knows no other way to be?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350647)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:12 PM
Author: Violent talented garrison yarmulke

latter

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350679)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:14 PM
Author: floppy piazza

So then how much blame to ascribe to him? And do you think he ever wakes up and realizes what he's done, or does he never realize it because he can defuse his guilt through lib crap?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350691)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:16 PM
Author: Violent talented garrison yarmulke

blaming him is dumb. he is an aspie programmer that just wanted to do aspie things and not really run a company, and kinda fell into this and got shit lucky and made billions. obviously he matured along the way, but he never set out to build a social juggernaut

no, i dont think he ralizes it, he's internalized it and become a rich yuppie shitlib through and through

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350704)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:31 PM
Author: abnormal base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350813)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:33 PM
Author: floppy piazza

i agree. if he didn't have agency before, he certainly has it now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350822)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:45 PM
Author: Violent talented garrison yarmulke

(said the rat face man)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350913)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:28 PM
Author: Electric Idiotic Menage

I think he stumbled into it -- this wasn't some evil plot he hatched at age 19 or whatever.

But now, due to the success of his company, he's double/tripling down on it, which amounts to an evil plot.

The obvious subtext of the speech he gave a few weeks back amounts to desiring nothing short of world domination.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350785)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:33 PM
Author: abnormal base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350828)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 4:50 PM
Author: Tantric cracking marketing idea queen of the night

I always got the impression that he had some amount of sincere belief that it was a good think to make people say things under their real names and have only one personality/identity to use in interacting with everybody else. It seemed like he was pushing that even before he realized that real name policies would make more money for advertisers and also make it easier for governments to crack down on hate speech and harassment.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30351362)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:12 PM
Author: Aromatic Swollen Black Woman National Security Agency

what harm has facebook done to humanity?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350677)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:24 PM
Author: Electric Idiotic Menage

flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350752)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:05 PM
Author: Stirring demanding ratface

what happened

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350628)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:36 PM
Author: federal parlour fortuitous meteor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350851)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:09 PM
Author: medicated turquoise circlehead station

"Person" might be a stretch.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350656)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:17 PM
Author: bat-shit-crazy tripping dingle berry school



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350706)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:24 PM
Author: Electric Idiotic Menage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350751)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:13 PM
Author: Carnelian marvelous alpha turdskin

Hes up there but Soros is far more evil

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350685)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:24 PM
Author: hateful maroon azn legal warrant

titcr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350755)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 4:52 PM
Author: Saffron domesticated travel guidebook



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30351375)



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Date: April 27th, 2016 7:09 AM
Author: vibrant rusted nursing home pozpig

Wut

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30355915)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:22 PM
Author: Lascivious Coldplay Fan

he's more insufferable than anything else. the globalist shitlib philanthropist schtick he's running now is the worst of it all.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350743)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:31 PM
Author: Electric Idiotic Menage

it goes deeper than that, though.

his vision for his company is to dominate every corner of the internet. success of the kind of plans he laid out recently would make him the most powerful person in the history of humanity.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350805)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:34 PM
Author: abnormal base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350834)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 4:49 PM
Author: mahogany area



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30351355)



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Date: October 23rd, 2016 2:15 PM
Author: Electric Idiotic Menage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#31709744)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:32 PM
Author: medicated turquoise circlehead station

The most hilarious part being his pledges to maybe give away his money at some indeterminate time in the future.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350819)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:42 PM
Author: abnormal base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350884)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:44 PM
Author: floppy piazza

>> Larry Page made a similar move a few years ago so he could build a 6,000-square-foot mansion. But Zuckerberg's reason is different. He doesn't want to live in excess, he just wants a little privacy. <<

Interesting quote, because lots of privacy in Palo Alto IS EXCESS.

It'd be like some billionaire buying up an acre of Manhattan so he could build a house with a big yard and saying he didn't want excess just a place where he could have a pool and tennis court and grill with friends.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350908)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:56 PM
Author: abnormal base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350985)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:58 PM
Author: floppy piazza

that's without even getting started on the privacy issues regarding Facebook, as the article notes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350994)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 4:46 PM
Author: Electric Idiotic Menage

“I don’t understand. Help me understand. I prithee. Comprehension craved. Please. Por favor. Mental absorption: desired. From ignorance to appreciation, sublimate, I plead of you.”

“I don’t know how else to say it, boss. I’ve contacted every contractor in a two hundred mile radius, and not a single one will increase your residence’s security perimeter by another three meters. Something about municipal regulations, zoning ordinances . . . I’m not sure they really even know why. But they’re all extremely certain it’s prohibited.”

“You’re really going to stand there and tell me that municipal zoning regulations are the reason you can’t deliver? You’re aware that, at its current height, the privacy perimeter has, at absolute minimum, a baker’s dozen line-of-sight vulnerabilities, yes? Can you possibly have any conception of how intrusive the current arrangement is? No, of course you can’t. So you’ll just stand there and tell me that a zoning ordinance—inevitably formulated and enacted by some committee of stay-at-home-moms, self-identified ‘concerned citizens, and mouthbreathers—is the impediment requiring my attention?

“ . . . . ”

“Before you even attempt an answer, I implore you: remember precisely why you’re here.”

“ . . . . ”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30351333)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 4:50 PM
Author: mahogany area



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Date: April 27th, 2016 9:38 AM
Author: Electric Idiotic Menage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30356341)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 3:45 PM
Author: laughsome underhanded therapy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30350911)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 4:51 PM
Author: territorial institution



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Date: April 26th, 2016 5:04 PM
Author: useless potus state



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Date: April 26th, 2016 7:10 PM
Author: abnormal base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30352229)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 7:12 PM
Author: pink exhilarant office mood

he is actively trying to bring the dystopian cyber punk future of sci fi to our world and make it a permanent reality. we should kill him like sarah connor from terminator 2 to save the future of mankind.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30352247)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 7:13 PM
Author: Electric Idiotic Menage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30352257)



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Date: April 26th, 2016 7:14 PM
Author: Grizzly anal reading party

chickens little ITT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30352267)



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Date: April 27th, 2016 9:22 AM
Author: Know-it-all center messiness

Its bad to impregnate that woman, but the most evil thing ever? a stretch...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30356273)



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Date: April 27th, 2016 9:28 AM
Author: hairraiser infuriating resort masturbator

I mean, he married a fug AZN who kept her name, but that hardly makes him evil

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30356301)



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Date: April 27th, 2016 9:38 AM
Author: Electric Idiotic Menage

Globalist Kike Lecturing You About "Global Community"

Date: April 13th, 2016 9:16 AM

Author: ned pointsman (dead)

"'As I look around the world, I'm starting to see people and nations turning inward, against the idea of a connected world and a global community,' Zuckerberg said. 'I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people ... I hear them calling for blocking free expression, for slowing immigration, for reducing trade, and in some cases even for cutting access to the internet. ... It takes courage to choose hope over fear'"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3194075&forum_id=2#30262440)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30356339)



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Date: April 27th, 2016 11:43 AM
Author: Razzle ocher striped hyena public bath

Agree that Facebook is shitty but how did it destroy humanity? Am I low iq

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30357123)



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Date: April 27th, 2016 11:44 AM
Author: Rose Wild Spot Dragon

first step towards forcing everyone to use real identity on internet to stamp out all dissent to our globalist overlords.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30357132)



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Date: April 27th, 2016 11:46 AM
Author: Razzle ocher striped hyena public bath

Will xo be like the matrix when that happens

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30357151)



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Date: April 27th, 2016 11:48 AM
Author: Rose Wild Spot Dragon

yep

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3206191&forum_id=2#30357175)



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Date: April 28th, 2016 4:14 PM
Author: Electric Idiotic Menage

Facebook Plans New Stock Class to Solidify Mark Zuckerberg’s Control

SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg nurtured Facebook from a dorm room idea into the world’s biggest social network. Now the company is taking steps to ensure its founder remains in charge.

Facebook on Wednesday proposed a new class of stock, known as C shares, in a move meant to allow Mr. Zuckerberg to maintain control of the Silicon Valley company. The creation of the new class of shares allows the chief executive to preserve his voting power at Facebook, even as he begins an effort to give away the majority of his stock for charitable purposes.

Facebook said the move was “not a traditional governance model,” but it added that “Facebook was not built to be a traditional company.”

The proposal speaks to a very Silicon Valley ethos where company founders often reign supreme — and where corporate structures have shifted to accommodate that philosophy. Over the past decade, more tech companies have adopted two classes of stock so that their founders can cement their voting power at the firms. In 2012, Google announced that it was creating a third class of shares to prevent its founders’ voting power from diminishing.

Mr. Zuckerberg on Wednesday cited the Silicon Valley mantra of founders in explaining the new class of stock, calling Facebook a “founder-led company.” In a conference call, he added, “Facebook has been built on a series of bold moves. When I look out on the future, I see more bold moves ahead of us, not behind us.”

The social network on Wednesday also reported robust first-quarter earnings that show the results of Mr. Zuckerberg’s leadership. Facebook said sales rose 52 percent to $5.3 billion from a year ago, while profit increased to $1.5 billion, tripling from $512 million a year earlier. Excluding certain items, profit was 77 cents a share, far surpassing Wall Street expectations of 62 cents a share.

Facebook’s shares, which are up more than 33 percent over the past year, soared 9 percent in after-hours trading.

Facebook said it began considering a third class of stock last August when a committee of three directors — Erskine Bowles, Susan Desmond-Hellmann and Marc Andreessen — started evaluating the company’s capital structure. In December, Mr. Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, announced the creation of a limited liability company to which they would give 99 percent of their Facebook shares during their lifetimes for charitable purposes.

Mr. Zuckerberg’s philanthropic plan posed an issue for his long-term control of Facebook. Mr. Zuckerberg, who is chief executive, owns almost 4 million Facebook class A shares and 468 million, or 85 percent, of its class B shares, giving him overall voting power of 60 percent. But if he were to give away 99 percent of his Facebook stock over time, his voting power at the company would decline to less than 50 percent.

The new C shares effectively allow Mr. Zuckerberg to maintain 60 percent of voting power while still giving away large amounts of stock. Under the proposal, all holders of Facebook stock will get two C shares for each A or B share that they own. Importantly, the C shares come with no voting power. Holders of A shares are entitled to one vote per share, while holder of B shares have 10 votes a share.

Facebook share prices over the past six months.

That means Mr. Zuckerberg, as the majority owner of Facebook shares, will obtain a large amount C shares that he can then donate without diluting his voting power in the company.

“It is a rational, if somewhat eyebrow-raising way, for founders to distribute wealth without giving up operating control of the company,” said Lise Buyer, founder of the Class V Group, which advises start-ups on initial public offerings. “This structure will continue to allow Facebook to make decisions that may not always look great in the short term, but may pay off for investors over time.”

Facebook’s C shares may trade at a slight discount to A shares, which would still have one vote. Most investors currently hold A shares, which only have about a quarter of the overall shareholders’ voting power, so they may not be forgoing much if they choose to sell their A shares versus their C shares.

“It’s almost like voting Republican in Massachusetts — you can do it, but it won’t affect the outcome,” said Rick Kline, a partner in the technology and capital markets practice of law firm Goodwin Procter.

Investors getting new C shares will not gain economically because the same proportion of new stock will be given to all holders.

Mr. Zuckerberg might have a more difficult time convincing shareholders to accept the new class of shares were his company not doing so well. Facebook’s financial results on Wednesday were a far cry from the disappointing numbers posted in the past 10 days by peers like Twitter, whose advertising business showed signs of stumbling on Tuesday, or Alphabet, the parent company of Google, which missed analysts’ estimates for revenue last week.

Facebook, in contrast, has figured out how to wring billions of dollars from its members on mobile devices and other platforms, making the company’s revenue-generation machine unstoppable.

The company said 82 percent of its advertising revenue came from mobile devices in the first quarter. In addition, Facebook is starting to spin up revenues in Instagram, the photo-sharing application, and is testing advertising on Facebook Messenger, the messaging service for which the company recently introduced automated customer service “bots.”

And while growth in new users on Facebook has slowed in recent years, the total is still getting larger. Facebook said 1.65 billion people visited the site on a monthly basis in the first quarter, up from 1.44 billion a year earlier. More than 1.5 billion people are monthly mobile-only users, up from 1.25 billion a year ago.

Facebook’s other big bets like WhatsApp, the messaging service, and Oculus, its virtual reality play, have yet to pay off with immense new revenue streams. But Facebook is comfortable gathering a critical mass of users — nearly a billion in WhatsApp’s case — and then introducing advertising later on when it makes more sense.

“To me, this is like Google 10 years ago,” said Mark Mahaney, an Internet analyst at RBC Capital. “They really had such momentum, and they’re proving how valuable they are to both advertisers and consumers.”

Mike Isaac reported from San Francisco and Leslie Picker from New York. Peter Eavis contributed reporting from New York.

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