Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Calls Obama To Discuss NSA

It sounds like Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not too happy with President Barack Obama. Zuckerberg, who has been one of the leading voices in coming down on the National Security Agency, otherwise known as the NSA, took to his Facebook page to air out his frustrations with the NSA overstepping their boundaries in the lives of citizens.

In a Facebook post, Mark Zuckerberg admitted that he was so frustrated with the situation with the NSA and how detrimental their overstepping is to the internet, that he staged a phone call with president Barack Obama.

In his note Zuckerberg publicly states, “I’ve called President Obama to express my frustration over the damage the government is creating for all of our future. Unfortunately, it seems like it will take a very long time for true full reform.”

The fact that Mark Zuckerberg would release his message speaks volumes and proves to be a very timely matter. This is only a day after whistle-blower Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA uses a program called Turbine to hack into people’s computers. This apparently was going too far for Zuckerberg. To add insult to injury, the NSA posed as a fake Facebook server in an attempt to infect another computer.

Mark Zuckerberg expressed that this was not what Facebook was made for:

“Facebook focuses much of its energy on making its own network secure as well as working to identify flaws in others’ services because the company wants to “keep the Internet strong.” The government, however, is undoing all of this goodwill.”

Zuckerberg continued to air out his frustrations in his Facebook post, which has received 118,241 likes and over 14,000 shares.

“I’ve been so confused and frustrated by the repeated reports of the behavior of the US government. When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we’re protecting you against criminals, not our own government.”

Although frustrated, Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a way that made the CEO sound passionate about a call to action. In an effort to rally people together against privacy issues, and the way the government is running the NSA, Zuckerbeg ended his note with:

“So it’s up to us — all of us — to build the internet we want. Together, we can build a space that is greater and a more important part of the world than anything we have today, but is also safe and secure. I’m committed to seeing this happen, and you can count on Facebook to do our part.”

To see Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook post in full, click here.

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