Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

I’ve been trying to figure out just why I got my Facebook account suspended for violating advertising rules when I never advertised anything.

When it came to profanity, I restricted myself to #(%*@)$_@#%!!! I did criticize the government, something the First Amendment allows me to do. I refer to the top three in the federal government as the nazi, the trailer trash and the psychopath. It’s fair comment and protected by the First Amendment. I reposted from the Jewish on Campus Facebook page. Jewish on Campus came into sharp focus after October 7, 2023 and the attacks on Jewish students that followed on college and university campuses across the country. I posted items from the Anti-Defamation League regarding antisemitic acts. I posted excerpts from articles in the New York Times and The Washington Post making sure credit was clearly given to the appropriate newspaper.

There was nothing wrong with what I did.

I think I figured out why Zuckerberg went after me. A former Facebook employee wrote a book,
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism. Zuckerberg tried to suppress the book. He failed. In response, I bought the book and encouraged others, via Facebook post, to buy the book. You can find the book on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DY9TZD8Z/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_351_o06?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I paid full price for the book and the last time I did that was when Prince Harry’s autobiography came out.

The timing is interesting. Zuckerberg is being sued by the US for anti-trust violations and the trial started this week. I hope he loses. His insistence on silencing dissent and anyone who criticizes him while sucking up to the psychopath in chief is going to bite him on the tush. The president of Columbia University thought giving in would be the end of the psychopath’s interference. The president of Columbia University was wrong. Give in to one demand, and more demands follow. Sucking up will not protect tech companies.

China is only going to take a certain amount of nonsense from the psychopath before cutting off access to all sorts of raw materials the US needs. Try building an EV without rare earth metals – and China supplies 70% of the rare earth metals the world needs. Try building a laptop without computer chips. China is the largest purchaser of soybeans grown in the US. How much nonsense and threats from the psychopath will it take for China to decide not to buy US grown soybeans? Just as it’s impossible, without a whole lot of expense, to turn an auto plant into a plant to manufacture ceramic toilets, it’s equally impossible, without a whole lot of expense, to turn a soybean farm into a tomato farm.

While I wait out my 6-month (and likely permanent) suspension, I’m looking for other on-line social media. I used Facebook to keep up with friends from law school (we live in three states in two different time zones), relatives (four states and three time zones) and friends from high school (three states, two time zones). I’m open to all social media suggestions for a replacement for Facebook.

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