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Zuck Celebrates $1 Trillion Valuation, Dismissed Antitrust Suits With Bizarre Flag-Waving Instagram Post (marketwatch.com) 68

Posted by EditorDavid from the American-dreams dept.
"Make America weird again," quipped CNBC, describing Mark Zuckerberg's Instagram post today commemorating America's national Independence Day holiday MarketWatch explains: Yes, that's the Facebook Inc. chief executive wakeboarding while holding an American flag to the tune of John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads."

Because: America.

In fairness, Zuckerberg did have reason to celebrate, as the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against Facebook was shot down (at least temporarily) last Monday, and a similar suit by [a coalition of 48] state attorneys general was dismissed outright. Facebook's valuation shot above the $1 trillion mark for the first time following the dismissals, and its shares rose about 4% on the week.
"If the plaintiffs had prevailed in the antitrust lawsuits, Facebook might have been required to divest Instagram and WhatsApp," notes CNBC."

Instead, he's using it to post a picture of himself flying an American flag on a $12,000 electronic surfboard.
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Zuck Celebrates $1 Trillion Valuation, Dismissed Antitrust Suits With Bizarre Flag-Waving Instagram Post

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  • Wow. I'm speechless. (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 04, 2021 @08:49PM (#61551474)

    Here's the last few Instagram comments about the video:

    hope he doesn’t fall in wouldn’t want his circuits to short out
    You embarrass America
    Cringe worthy
    Doesn’t the creepy robot electrocute in water?

  • Delete your FB account (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Ian_MA ( 5468378 ) on Sunday July 04, 2021 @08:53PM (#61551482)

    I deleted my FB account as a way of celebrating Mark Zuckerberg celebrating, cause fuck that guy.

    • Friend request from Tom from MySpace. (ThumbsUp.JPG)

    • You're doing it wrong. You should never have signed up on FaceBook to begin with.

      • Yeah, call me when your stupid friends and family do because theirs did because they were told "everyone" did, and it's either that or being completely left our, from invitations, important news (like somebody getting married), etc.
        Sure, you can say no. And become a loner.
        . . .
        That is exactly the gun the Zuckbot put on everyone's chest.
        . . .
        Joke's on him: I don't like almost all humans anyway and already got proper real-world friends now. :)

    • Your "deletion" won't be real.
      You will still have a shadow account. Fed by e.g. web beacons and your still existing friends uploading photos of you etc.

      But thanks to the EU GDPR, even FB and Google need to offer two services:
      One to download ALL your data, in accessible formats.
      And one to *actually* delete all the data. Even from backups and third parties and such.
      This page can be used by everyone, not just people from the EU.
      It is just extremely well hidden. (Which is kinda illegal too, but somebody has to

    • Why did it take you that long?

  • where else (Score:3, Interesting)

    by awwshit ( 6214476 ) on Sunday July 04, 2021 @09:08PM (#61551502)

    Of course Mark loves the USA, where else could he have succeed as much?

  • Forget take me home country road, the Revenge of the Nerds theme is an automatic fit.

  • "on a $12,000 electronic surfboard."
    That's not electric (and I wouldn't call it a surfboard either).
    A) He's pumping it a few times
    B) He's riding a wake
    C) There's no hand-held controller.

  • Meanwhile in reality... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by BAReFO0t ( 6240524 ) on Sunday July 04, 2021 @10:57PM (#61551724)

    All the kids are avoiding FB like the plague.
    It's literally the most uncool thing to use. And it spreads to the older generations as we speak.
    Everyone else is just waiting for that wave to reach them, as they hate FB's guts but can't leave yet due to everyone else being there due to GOTO 10.
    So FB is literally already dead but doesn't know it.

    Oh well, at least their willful ignorance will make damn sure that they hit that brick wall at top speed. :,-D

    • Re:Meanwhile in reality... (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 04, 2021 @11:33PM (#61551794)

      All the kids are avoiding FB like the plague.
      It's literally the most uncool thing to use.

      They're migrating to Instagram and WhatsApp instead.
      facepalm.

      It doesn't matter where else they try and go. Fuckerberg has enough money to buy that company too.

    • It's literally the most uncool thing to use Chicom based platform says hi ãS(!â--!)ã

    • All the kids are avoiding FB like the plague. It's literally the most uncool thing to use. And it spreads to the older generations as we speak. Everyone else is just waiting for that wave to reach them, as they hate FB's guts but can't leave yet due to everyone else being there due to GOTO 10. So FB is literally already dead but doesn't know it.

      Oh well, at least their willful ignorance will make damn sure that they hit that brick wall at top speed. :,-D

      Well, I personally deleted my facebook account back in 2009.

      Not just all the kids (!), you know..

  • You deserve everything you get!

    ;-)

  • This sort of video is posted a thousand times a day from average joes around the country, with nobody batting an eyelid over the weirdness of them, or wishing the video's author dead, or closing their account in a fit of rage. Youtube is replete with this sort of jackassery and misguided display of national pride.

    The reason it provokes such negative reactions when billionaires do it is because people hate rich fucks who don't pay their taxes and get to be rich by throwing decency out the window.

    Ordinary peo

  • I mean my Instagram is full of flag waving celebration videos all involving various amounts of alcohol, stupidity and flags, but I don't think any of those people run a $1tn company.

  • Or my daughter's graduation. It's hard to say when two things fall on the same day. Either way there's flag waving involved.

  • "Take Me Home, Country Roads" appears to be played in its' entirety in the video. Does Mr. Z have permission to use that song? It's 100% controlled by ASCAP [ascap.com], which means he would need an ASCAP license for Web and Mobile, I'd think.

    • Whether he buys a license or pays statutory damages, he can afford it so its kind of a moot point. Good luck kicking him off his own platform, DMCA takedown or not.

  • Question (Score:3)

    by taylorius ( 221419 ) on Monday July 05, 2021 @07:24AM (#61552390) Homepage

    Why does Mark Zuckerberg have a plastic head in the video?

  • Is it ... bad that we can't punish somebody if we can't build a successful legal case against him?

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by qqqqarl ( 678615 )

      You sweet child... do you honestly believe the legal system is fair?

      • You sweet child... do you honestly believe the legal system is fair?

        Fairer than most lynch mobs. Can't have perfection in this life.

  • "Skating away, on the thin ice of the new day!"
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