Peter Thiel is leaving the board of directors of Facebook parent company Meta. The Silicon Valley billionaire and advisor to ex-President Donald Trump has been an increasingly polarizing figure among the company’s directors. https://t.co/2rAQZFMHty
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 8, 2022
A bad day for Facebook is probably a good day for democracy
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) February 4, 2022
It’s bad new for both Mark Zuckerberg and our democracy…
if peter thiel is leaving facebook who’s going to ruin the entire planet just kidding the answer is everybody else at facebook
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) February 7, 2022
i think this is right, but a key difference is that MSFT could be boring and stupid and terrible for several years until they got their shit together. FB doesn’t have legacy enterprise shit every company on earth will keep buying while they fuck around. https://t.co/PTQQkSffXr
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) February 3, 2022
they’re absolutely still printing money, no doubt, but if they let zuckerberg continue to call all their shots, they’re going to run into serious trouble.
MSFT is fun to make fun of (esp. as a longtime mac / ios person), but the whole cinematic universe of O365 / azure / BI products is very forward thinking for enterprise business software. i haven’t seen even any *inkling* that facebook has anything similar for consumers.
not for nothing, but also, the MSFT experience on mac is finally now mostly not bad for most people, after several centuries of it being absolutely awful.
my crackpot hot take is that facebook is a lot more like walmart than microsoft.
oh no, not extremely belated and measured consideration of consumer privacy! anything but that! https://t.co/ejoOSvVA9P
— Karl Bode (@KarlBode) February 4, 2022
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