FB's Zuckerburg launches political movement

[Tim Cornelis]

So facebook founder Zuckerberg launched a political movement, forward us.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/11/fwdus-mark-zuckerberg-facebook_n_3060893.html

One of its main pillars is immigration reform to allow more immigrants. I can only imagine stormfronter's reaction, "God damn Jews, committing white genocide." They must be going batshit insane.

[cynicles]

Yuck, corporate political movements. As if we need another of those. I fear this kind of bullshit will appeal to naive young people.

[Lucretia]

Sorry, but one individual, even a rich one, is not capable of launching a social movement. It's called a "social" movement for a reason.

[Delenda Carthago]

The system creates the dams(definently not dikes!) to keep the people away from truly revolutionary forms of organising and resisting. May it be opportunistic "left" parties, the pirate parties, now this, anything but true class organisation.

[Yuppie Grinder]

Social networking is the direct privatization of friendship. Alienation in full effect.

[Os Cangaceiros]

I don't like that guy.

[Red Commissar]

It may be recalled that Zuckerburg also contributed money to funding education in underserved areas back in 2010 (I think), but there wasn't much follow up by the media on that. Mostly because this money hasn't actually gone to doing that, but also that the intent was actually to fund charter schools, something which I don't understand why naive liberals go gaga over.

[sixdollarchampagne]

Zuckerberg's call for immigration "reform" that "begins with effective border security," can only mean more repression against undocumented workers who seek to settle in the US (so they can work to feed their families), which is an utterly contemptible goal for an extremely wealthy person like Zuckerberg (net worth, $14 billion, according to the web (http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/ceos/mark-zuckerberg-net-worth/).

According to one US think tank, 477 immigrants died trying to cross the US-Mexican border in 2012. http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/ABC_Univision/us-mexico-border-deaths-increasing-report/story?id=18784948#.UWelzFHds4Y How much more effectiveness, i.e., how many more dead immigrants, do the liberal billionaires and the rest of the nativists want? How much innocent blood is enough? What bunch of jerks the rich are!

Mentioning the (jerky) rich, reminds me of the year 2000 presidential election campaign, when I was in the Socialist Party, and in support of our Socialist Party presidential campaign, I put together a leaflet containing a mixture of quotes from the reactionary nativist Pat Buchanan and from multi-millionaire Ralph Nader, both of them running for President in the year 2000. The quotes were about undocumented immigrant workers who sought to cross US borders; the quotes were unattributed, and the leaflet invited people to guess which reactionary, anti-immigrant sentiments came from Buchanan and which ones came from (the "progressive") Nader, the point being that both bourgeois candidates had made xenophobic public statements, while the Socialist Party considered that workers from abroad were our class allies, not our enemies.

[Mather]

From what I heard, Zuckerburg only wants to see a relaxation of border controls for 'highly skilled' immigrants. While Zuckerburg would like to see more IT engineers and programmers coming to the US, he has no problem with the US closing the door on those 'unskilled' immigrants who are manual workers such as crop pickers, cleaners etc.

His position is one of naked self interest and has nothing to do with the welfare of immigrants.

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

Will you be calling for nationalization?

Communisation.

[Comrade #138672]

Zuckerberg sure is a scumbag. Damn that hypocrite.

[Goblin]

I hate him and his creation. Fuck him. Rich motherfucker!

[Ravachol]

He will have about as much impact as your average leftist sect, so meh. Besides, his proposals are simply riding the wave: tighten the borders of the stable capitalist core, attract highly skilled immaterial workers and keep out the increasingly large surplus proletariat. Nothing capital isn't already doing.

[DasFapital]

More like FUCKERburg amirite?

[Hexen]

Zuckerberg's call for immigration "reform" that "begins with effective border security," can only mean more repression against undocumented workers who seek to settle in the US (so they can work to feed their families), which is an utterly contemptible goal for an extremely wealthy person like Zuckerberg (net worth, $14 billion, according to the web (http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/ceos/mark-zuckerberg-net-worth/).

Well yep, all immigration is just bringing more workers in for capitalists to exploit.

[Die Neue Zeit]

Social networking is the direct privatization of friendship. Alienation in full effect.

Now who's lost whom? I can understand the second part but not the first.

[Crixus]

Facebook is the big satan. I deleted mine last year because it's one giant example of what Sartre would call "people living in bad faith". The lack of privacy is creepy as well as the economic side of the site. It's a giant commercial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_faith_%28existentialism%29

Anyhow, what's actually going on here is quite sickening. It's a sort of cartel of internet corporations banding together to lobby Washington in what they're framing as some sort of good samaritan agenda but when a bunch of capitalists band together to pressure Washington we all know what that means.

"Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Yelp Chairman Max Levchin, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Zynga CEO Marc Pincus and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, along with influential venture capitalists Ron Conway, Jim Breyer and John Doerr" are just some of the people behind Fwd.us. It's a scummy cartel where capital blatantly unites to push for laws and in this case I'm willing to bet the new laws will have to do with the profitability of the internet. Billionaires and corporations should just fuck off for a while ya?