Zuckerberg now runs not a business but an empire. It’s time to strike back
by Guardian Staff from Technology | The Guardian on (#3ZV1H)
Anti-monopoly law has not kept abreast of social networks, leaving Facebook free to suck up any rivals
Is Mark Zuckerberg too powerful? The Facebook founder and chief executive is known to be a fan of the Roman emperor Augustus, though his modern-day empire stretches far further, and encompasses many more people: only China remains unconquered among his 2.2 billion supplicants.
And like an emperor, Zuckerberg can ignore bad news. There was plenty last week. On Tuesday the Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger left Facebook amid suggestions that they were increasingly unhappy with Zuckerberg's favouring Facebook over Instagram.
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