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demmiblue

(36,917 posts)
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 06:22 PM Nov 2020

Zuckerberg says Bannon has not violated enough policies for suspension: recording

Source: Reuters

PALO ALTO (Reuters) - Facebook FB.O Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told an all-staff meeting on Thursday that former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon had not violated enough of the company's policies to justify his suspension, according to a recording heard by Reuters.

“We have specific rules around how many times you need to violate certain policies before we will deactivate your account completely,” Zuckerberg said. “While the offenses here, I think, came close to crossing that line, they clearly did not cross the line.”

Bannon suggested in a video last week that FBI Director Christopher Wray and government infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci should be beheaded, saying they had been disloyal to U.S. President Donald Trump, who last week lost his re-election bid.

Facebook removed the video but left up Bannon’s page. The company had not previously answered questions about those actions and did not immediately respond to a Reuters request about Zuckerberg’s comments.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN27S35P

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Zuckerberg says Bannon has not violated enough policies for suspension: recording (Original Post) demmiblue Nov 2020 OP
Worm JDC Nov 2020 #1
Fuckerberg pushing future "suicide" candidate Bannon - just in time for the holidays! bringthePaine Nov 2020 #20
Zuckerberg needs to read about Kathy Griffith and the way she was hounded - for much less. flor-de-jasmim Nov 2020 #2
Dont you have enough money? You are going to give it away when you die, so why Eliot Rosewater Nov 2020 #3
IE, he hasn't killed anyone yet. Ferrets are Cool Nov 2020 #4
Not in broad daylight... SergeStorms Nov 2020 #21
Does Zuckerberg endorse or promote beheadings of US government officials? Newest Reality Nov 2020 #5
So Zuckerberg supports beheading. C_U_L8R Nov 2020 #6
How many people does he have to threaten to behead louis-t Nov 2020 #7
Maybe Rebl2 Nov 2020 #19
Zucker douche thinks he's like a modern day Edison or Ford BlueNProud Nov 2020 #8
What about his numerous other inventions? SergeStorms Nov 2020 #22
Now would be a good time for everyone left on Facebook ZZenith Nov 2020 #9
+1 dalton99a Nov 2020 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author Dakota Flint Nov 2020 #10
Sorry Dakota Flint Nov 2020 #11
Let's see...how long do you think an account that recommended that littlemissmartypants Nov 2020 #12
FB is no better than fux snooz..aiding and abetting criminal behavior Thekaspervote Nov 2020 #14
Do you think for a second Docreed2003 Nov 2020 #15
Terrorist market share just too important to Fakebook business model Ponietz Nov 2020 #16
Please be stupid enough to keep dropping the mask CatLady78 Nov 2020 #17
Antitrust suit sounds good right about now IsItJustMe Nov 2020 #18
Biden needs to work toward breaking the Zuker monopoly up into a million pieces. nt yaesu Nov 2020 #23
What ARE FB's standards?? EndlessWire Nov 2020 #24
Seeing that Zuck's algorithms... SergeStorms Nov 2020 #25
Fuck zuckerborg. warmfeet Nov 2020 #26
In other words... Zambero Nov 2020 #27
Never used Facebook, never will mdbl Nov 2020 #28
Me too Loge23 Nov 2020 #29
Never-Facebooker. It is anti orderly society. Lies and violence. NCjack Nov 2020 #33
I remain convinced that logging onto Facebook causes a permanent brain damage. TomSlick Nov 2020 #30
So glad I left it birdographer Nov 2020 #31
I'd like to know what actually constitutes "crossing the line" patphil Nov 2020 #32
He is trying to stop the trumper hemorrhage. All the more reason to leave FB Vivienne235729 Nov 2020 #34

Eliot Rosewater

(31,137 posts)
3. Dont you have enough money? You are going to give it away when you die, so why
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 06:25 PM
Nov 2020

are you working so hard for more money and more death?

C_U_L8R

(45,040 posts)
6. So Zuckerberg supports beheading.
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 06:26 PM
Nov 2020

At least it's evident to all he supports threats of beheading within his business platform.
What's the point of Facebook if you got no face? Fuckerberg.

BlueNProud

(1,048 posts)
8. Zucker douche thinks he's like a modern day Edison or Ford
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 06:30 PM
Nov 2020

you founded a glorified dating site - get over yourself Little Ceasar.

ZZenith

(4,136 posts)
9. Now would be a good time for everyone left on Facebook
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 06:31 PM
Nov 2020

to call for the beheading of Mark Zuckerberg.

Let’s test their policies.

Response to demmiblue (Original post)

littlemissmartypants

(22,855 posts)
12. Let's see...how long do you think an account that recommended that
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 06:36 PM
Nov 2020

Zuckerberg, his wife and children should be beheaded would last?

Thekaspervote

(32,821 posts)
14. FB is no better than fux snooz..aiding and abetting criminal behavior
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 06:38 PM
Nov 2020

Do you really want to support this? Anyone?

Docreed2003

(16,903 posts)
15. Do you think for a second
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 06:39 PM
Nov 2020

That if you or I suggested that Zuckerbergs head should be on a pike in a FB post that we wouldn't be immediately banned???

CatLady78

(1,041 posts)
17. Please be stupid enough to keep dropping the mask
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 07:02 PM
Nov 2020

This is why it is not even good for you in the long run to have no kind of conscience and to get by solely on scheming, calculation, "winning" and crassness.

Trump does the same thing..only without any higher level processes-I am not sure Trump has conscious processes. This fools his nutty base into thinking he is "real" whereas they see more clearly through people like Mitt Romney (who has a positive genius for saying the quasi-right thing well after it has ceased to matter),Jared Kushner, Nikki Haley etc. These people are tied with Trump in amorality but they are (more) capable of conscious reasoning and so they seem more cunning/mercenary. Whereas Trump gets by on some sort of unconscious cunning, while being mercenary and amoral.

We all have unconscious processes that are probably self serving. You should try to make some sort of effort to at least actively throw them out. This virtue of selfishness crap is getting a bit old. It isn't a bad thing to have some disinterested processes ongoing inside your head. They are very grounding provided you are not in a state of panic induced by nutjobs. Or you can end up like this amoral jerk.

IsItJustMe

(7,012 posts)
18. Antitrust suit sounds good right about now
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 07:06 PM
Nov 2020

Facebook is a scourge on American society, in my humble opinion anyway.

EndlessWire

(6,574 posts)
24. What ARE FB's standards??
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 07:48 PM
Nov 2020

He can't be serious. He must have been threatened by someone.

It wasn't just beheading that was promoted. The other guy, on the tape with his voice, advocated HANGING people, to which Bannon agreed. Bannon stated that it would keep people in line.

These are public officials that they recommend to be executed. So, what are Bannon's standards? Zuckerberg is utterly despicable.

Bannon should be arrested for violating bail and rejailed. This wasn't chit chat at a local bar. This was a public broadcast advocating executions of government officials.

So, I ask again, what are the standards? To me, there aren't any. Do we really need FB?

I don't think Mark has a brain in his head, at this point. Someone threatened him.

SergeStorms

(19,205 posts)
25. Seeing that Zuck's algorithms...
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 07:51 PM
Nov 2020

match people with the same hateful traits to the most hateful stories - true or not - I think Zuck is responsible for much of the world's ills right now. I'd love to see Facebook and Zuckerberg smashed to smithereens, incinerated, ground into a fine dust, then mixed with Bannon's putrid piss and have it poured down Donald Trump's throat.

Am I being too harsh there? I am? Alright, just Facebook then, but Zuckerberg has to watch.

warmfeet

(3,321 posts)
26. Fuck zuckerborg.
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 08:50 PM
Nov 2020

Throw him on the trash heap with his best bud, tRump, banning, et al.

Mispellingss can be intentional.

Zambero

(8,981 posts)
27. In other words...
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 08:50 PM
Nov 2020

C'mon Steve-O, you wuss. We know you can do lots better than that. Go ahead, violate even more policies, no worries!

patphil

(6,254 posts)
32. I'd like to know what actually constitutes "crossing the line"
Fri Nov 13, 2020, 03:17 AM
Nov 2020

Pushing your grandmother off the subway platform into the path of a train?
Releasing sarin gas in a crowded theater?
Or maybe throwing babies into tree shredders?

I mean, it's got to be something really bad for beheading to not cross the line.

Goddam, it sounds like he would have cut Hitler some slack for running death camps.

Maybe Zuckerberg should be banned from owning Facebook.

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