Facebook’s Zuckerberg sues to force land sales

[Popster]

I want to close my facebook account, but so many of my friends use it that it's socially impossible. I used to take the view that I was very easy to find on the internet since I have a moderately high profile job, have myrealname.com as my website, so if you have my real name I'm the top google search - easy. But friends simply won't go that route. And now they are insisting on arranging things via facebook messenger. So for many people facebook IS the internet. I hate that view, because I think it breaks the original principles of the internet. If I'm given a URL for facebook I need an fb account or the odds are I can't go to that URL. Furthermore the permissions their app requires in Android are absurd - it's more or less everything on your device.

At the risk of sounding like a Google fan-boy, I will give them some credit for being more explicit about what they do with your data, allowing you to delete it, and download everything in a massive ZIP file. Facebook have moved the goalposts several times without warning users so I distrust them more than Google.

You are so right on.......I don't have a FakeBook account cause I trust them less than the peeping tom named Google.

[G.Elias]

Speaking of google,found this on wi ki leax site-hxxps://wikileaks.org/Op-ed-Google-and-the-NSA-Who-s.html

just replace the xx with tt

[Linville]

Thx TG

I also saw where zuckerberg dropped the law suit in Hawai , Kauai.
Too much bad publicity and bad karma for him I guess ....the rich spoiled jerk

[Linville]

The article I was talking about .

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg drops lawsuits in Hawaii to force land sales
Dan Mangan | @_DanMangan
Fri, 27 Jan '17 | 2:58 PM ET
Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images
Mark Zuckerberg
Aloha, lawsuits. 
Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire CEO of Facebook, announced Friday that he was dropping a set of lawsuits that sought to force hundreds of Hawaiians to sell him small plots of land strewn across his 700-acre beachfront property on the island of Kauai.
Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, calling the lawsuits "a mistake," revealed their decision in a column published online in The Garden Island News, a newspaper on Kauai. The move came less than two weeks after thelawsuits were publicly revealed, generating a flurry of media coverage, and a day after a report that hundreds of protesters planned to march on Saturday along a controversial six-foot wall Zuckerberg built along part of the land last year.
The so-called quiet title suits related to a dozen plots of "kuleana" land covering a total of about eight acres. 
The plots were originally granted to native Hawaiians in the mid-1800s, and in many cases the current ownership stakes of their descendants, or of the descendants of subsequent owners, are minuscule. Many people may not know they have title to the property, and in some cases, it was not clear if there are any living owners. 
However, owners are entitled to cross Zuckerberg's secluded beachfront property — which he bought for $100 million two years ago — to get access to their own land. 
Zuckerberg had said no one would be forced off of their land, and at least one owner of the land was backing his suit. But if individual owners did not respond to the suits, a court could have ordered the auction of their stakes in the property to the highest bidder.
The backlash over the suits led Zuckerberg thispast Tuesday to say he was "reconsidering the suits."
On Friday, he and Chan wrote, "We've heard from many in the community and learned more about the cultural and historical significance of this land." 
"Over the past week, we've spoken with community leaders and shared that our intention is to achieve an outcome that preserves the environment, respects local traditions, and is fair to those with kuleana lands," the couple wrote.
"To find a better path forward, we are dropping our quiet title actions and will work together with the community on a new approach," Zuckerberg and Chan wrote. "We understand that for native Hawaiians, kuleana are sacred and the quiet title process can be difficult. We want to make this right, talk with the community, and find a better approach.
They also wrote, "Upon reflection, I regret that I did not take the time to fully understand the quiet title process and its history before we moved ahead. Now that I understand the issues better, it's clear we made a mistake. 
"The right path is to sit down and discuss how to best move forward," he and Chan wrote. "We will continue to speak with community leaders that represent different groups, including native Hawaiians and environmentalists, to find the best path." 
"We love Kaua'i and we want to be good members of the community for the long term. Thank you for welcoming our family into your community."

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[bothereddog]

WOW I knew there must be good reason I hated facef@-k so much this world is morally bankrupt that's aborant.

[G.Elias]

Read that he has dropped the case now.

[Linville]

yeah TG he has and I dont know how I got the 2 threads when it should be one.
But I posted new article of him dropping the lawsuit in the other thread about same issue.

Thx for posting TommyGun.

[Sudsy]

I love the Hawaiian people, I have had the pleasure of spending a fair amount of time in Hawaii. To me the Hawaiian people are like the American Indians
they also have been screwed by the white man. Reading this article makes me sick.

Sudsy

[Mad Max]

Merged threads per OP.