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nebrisElizabeth Warren should expect a huge legal battle if she becomes the next US president and tries to lead a breakup of Facebook.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg threatened “to go to the mat” and “fight” in an internal employee meeting in July, according to transcripts and audio recordings of the comments that the Verge published on Tuesday.
Asked by an employee about Warren and a potential breakup, Zuckerberg said, “I’m certainly ... worried that someone is going to try to break up our company.”
“So there might be a political movement where people are angry at the tech companies or are worried about concentration or worried about different issues and worried that they’re not being handled well,” he added. “That doesn’t mean that, even if there’s anger and that you have someone like Elizabeth Warren who thinks that the right answer is to break up the companies. ... I mean, if she gets elected president, then I would bet that we will have a legal challenge, and I would bet that we will win the legal challenge. And does that still suck for us? Yeah. I mean, I don’t want to have a major lawsuit against our own government.”
But Zuckerberg told employees, “if someone’s going to try to threaten something that existential, you go to the mat and you fight.”
On Tuesday, Warren tweeted in response: “What would really ‘suck’ is if we don’t fix a corrupt system that lets giant companies like Facebook engage in illegal anticompetitive practices, stomp on consumer privacy rights, and repeatedly fumble their responsibility to protect our democracy.”
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/1/20893133/mark-zuckerberg-elizabeth-warren-facebook-sue-us-government-tech-breakup
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg threatened “to go to the mat” and “fight” in an internal employee meeting in July, according to transcripts and audio recordings of the comments that the Verge published on Tuesday.
Asked by an employee about Warren and a potential breakup, Zuckerberg said, “I’m certainly ... worried that someone is going to try to break up our company.”
“So there might be a political movement where people are angry at the tech companies or are worried about concentration or worried about different issues and worried that they’re not being handled well,” he added. “That doesn’t mean that, even if there’s anger and that you have someone like Elizabeth Warren who thinks that the right answer is to break up the companies. ... I mean, if she gets elected president, then I would bet that we will have a legal challenge, and I would bet that we will win the legal challenge. And does that still suck for us? Yeah. I mean, I don’t want to have a major lawsuit against our own government.”
But Zuckerberg told employees, “if someone’s going to try to threaten something that existential, you go to the mat and you fight.”
On Tuesday, Warren tweeted in response: “What would really ‘suck’ is if we don’t fix a corrupt system that lets giant companies like Facebook engage in illegal anticompetitive practices, stomp on consumer privacy rights, and repeatedly fumble their responsibility to protect our democracy.”
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/1/20893133/mark-zuckerberg-elizabeth-warren-facebook-sue-us-government-tech-breakup