Mark Zuckerberg was worked into such a lather over the NSA masquerading as Facebook to conduct certain surveillance operations that he got the president on the horn and presumably told him a thing or two. Then he told the world about the call with a status post on Facebook. Zuckerberg's statements are "completely disingenuous," said Jarad Carleton, a principal consultant at Frost & Sullivan.CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on Facebook that he called President Obama to complain about NSA surveillance."The Internet is our shared space," he wrote. Most people and companies "work together to create this secure environment and make our shared space even better for the world. When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we're protecting against criminals, not our own government."
The U.S. government should be the champion for the Internet, not a threat, Zuckerberg continued, calling for transparency about what the government is doing "or otherwise people will believe the worst."
He called the president "to express my frustration over the damage the government is creating for all of our future," Zuckerberg wrote. "It's up to us -- all of us -- to build the Internet we want."
Zuckerberg's statements sparked mixed responses.
Diverting Consumers' AngerFacebook may be riding on the coattails of opposition to NSA surveillance, suggested Mukul Krishna, digital media senior global director at Frost & Sullivan.
For Zuckerberg, who once famously said, in effect, that privacy was dead, "this is a really nice way to get onto the bandwagon and say Facebook's looking out for the interests of subscribers," Krishna said.
"People are suffering from Facebook fatigue
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