Donald Trump Has Mark Zuckerberg By the Balls (www.404media.co)
from some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to technology@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 17:39
https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/28039143

This headline was literally my first out-loud laugh of the day. I love it.

Meta has denied directly lobbying on the TikTok ban, but the company spent a record sum lobbying in 2024, including on “Homeland Security” topics. In March 2022, the Washington Post reported that Meta paid a firm called Targeted Victory to push the narrative that TikTok is dangerous to children. And Zuckerberg himself has spent the last five years painting a picture to Congress that his monopolistic company faces great competition, actually, from Chinese companies and more importantly from China itself. This story has served Meta extraordinarily well, as he has been able to distract from Meta’s myriad privacy violations and monopolistic actions by saying it would be worse if China wins. Meta is not a monopoly, he says. It is a company fighting on behalf of America against China and Chinese companies for the soul of the internet.

“Ooh, China bad, don’t pay attention to all the evil we do.” Jackass.

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Late2TheParty@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 18:01 next collapse

Billionaires are a scourge

BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 18:15 next collapse

Once they’ve conquered industry they’ll move on to conquering countries. No amount of money or power will satisfy them.

futatorius@lemm.ee on 19 Jan 18:11 collapse

More like a cancer.

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 18:02 next collapse

Israel too.

MNByChoice@midwest.social on 16 Jan 19:11 collapse

Israel has Zuckerberg by the balls?

SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 18:33 next collapse

The Zuck has balls?

Nougat@fedia.io on 16 Jan 18:48 next collapse

Sure, but they're rat balls, having been included with the rat penis transplant.

echodot@feddit.uk on 17 Jan 05:19 collapse

In Trump hands they seem normal sized.

RobotToaster@mander.xyz on 16 Jan 19:00 collapse

Lizards have testicles, they’re just internal.

Harvey656@lemmy.world on 17 Jan 02:50 collapse

I heard he got a rat penis transplant since lizard dick wasn’t cutting it anymore.

SculptusPoe@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 18:37 next collapse

Why is Meta lobbying at all? Why does any private entity have the ear of presidents and congress? This is a fundamental problem with the system as a whole.

HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club on 16 Jan 19:48 next collapse

Why is Meta lobbying at all?

They want to influence public policy for their benefit.

Why does any private entity have the ear of presidents and congress?

A large part of politics is balancing the needs of different groups.

leftytighty@slrpnk.net on 16 Jan 20:15 next collapse

different corporations

Bronzebeard@lemm.ee on 16 Jan 23:33 collapse

Which are groups of assets

SculptusPoe@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 21:08 collapse

That’s fine if all the different groups have a forum where being heard isn’t decided by the size of the donation.

SplashJackson@lemmy.ca on 16 Jan 20:41 next collapse

Don’t forget about Party Whips, Jerrymandering, and Campaign Contributions! There’s a whole slew of reasons why our democracies have gotten fucked up! Not a lot of answers on how to fix 'em, though

CitizenKong@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 22:33 next collapse

The foxes have been in the henhouse for a while. But now they don’t need to hide anymore. The American oligarchy can finally shed its masks and go full-on Russia 2.0.

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Jan 17:17 collapse

Why is Meta lobbying at all?

They’re owned by a zionist who wants to whitewash an ongoing genocide.

SculptusPoe@lemmy.world on 17 Jan 17:43 collapse

Well, that might be the case, but I’ve only been fed tons of posts on FB that were pretty anti-Israel way too far in the other direction. That can’t be the main issue…

MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 18:59 next collapse

Maybe he’s “just grabbing him/them by the pussy”?

cabron_offsets@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 20:23 next collapse

What balls?

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 20:51 next collapse

“Very fine balls on both sides.”

Danitos@reddthat.com on 16 Jan 21:29 next collapse

Kinky

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 16 Jan 21:56 collapse

Can we get Stormy Daniels to video tape it for us?

echodot@feddit.uk on 17 Jan 05:20 collapse

Get out the macro lens

photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Jan 21:40 next collapse

Yeah, because Zuck put his right into Trump’s hands, willingly.

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 21:44 next collapse

Wish Biden had Zuck by the balls.

sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org on 16 Jan 22:44 next collapse

That’s only fair, since Zuckerberg has a deathgrip on Trumps ass with his lips.

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Jan 23:07 next collapse

pretty sure it’s the other way around; big tech and their billionaires have trump like a puppet on a string.

Maggoty@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 23:36 next collapse

Most of big tech actually falls under the TikTok ban possibility. He may have lobbied for it but Congress put him square in the cross hairs. So Trump effectively has a veto on Zuckerberg owning Meta.

futatorius@lemm.ee on 19 Jan 18:15 collapse

Trump is easily swayed, but some of the gangsters behind him are not.

taanegl@lemmy.ml on 17 Jan 00:54 next collapse

Trump: *gives Musk favour*

Teh Zuck: Wat about me daddy UwU

Tikiporch@lemmy.world on 17 Jan 07:00 next collapse

No one can actually have a billionaire by the balls, even if they’re another billionaire. It’s kind of the whole point of being a billionaire.

Pretty much their only weakness is literally everyone else deciding billionaires shouldn’t exist, and working together to make that happen.

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works on 17 Jan 15:30 next collapse

Just look at the Russian model, that’s what Trump wants to do.

You can only be a billionaire, if you do what the authoritarians want. Otherwise you get arrested or pushed out a window and they absorb all your assets… I don’t think all of these US billionaires thought this through to be honest.

futatorius@lemm.ee on 19 Jan 18:13 collapse

A lot of them have been going to Mar a Lago to kiss the ring. So it looks like they have thought it through.

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org on 18 Jan 00:05 collapse

Trump has the power (shortly) to direct his anger at companies in ways that do let him have zuck by the balls.

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Jan 17:16 next collapse

This is why we gotta ban TikTok!!! \s

Seriously though… Too many zucklickers on here.

rumba@lemmy.zip on 17 Jan 17:32 next collapse

Meanwhile go watch Youtubers vacationing in China, a lot fo the narrative we’re being fed is BS.

Not all of it mind you…

futatorius@lemm.ee on 19 Jan 18:08 collapse

Big assumption there.