A frustrated Mark Zuckerberg took to his Facebook profile Thursday to call out the government for its recent Internet security decisions. Zuckerberg is seen here a few weeks ago at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
Mark Zuckerberg has had it up to here with the United States government.
The Facebook CEO took to his publc profile page Thursday to express his frustrations about the way the U.S. government has handled Internet security in recent months.
It's a sensitive issue for Facebook, a company under continuous scrutiny regarding privacy issues that most recently came under fire last summer when reports surfaced that Internet companies sent user information to the NSA. Zuckerberg denied the reports at the time and said that the claims were harming facebook's reputation among its users.
He echoed those sentiments in his post on Thursday, highlighting the company's steps to ensure web security and user privacy remain a major focus. Zuckerberg went as far as to call out the government as a security threat to his engineers' work at Facebook:
This is why 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.
The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they're doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst.
Zuckerberg wrote that he even called President Barack Obama to express his frustrations. "Unfortunately, it seems like it will take a very long time for true full reform," he wrote.
The motivation for the post is still unclear, but reports surfaced on Wednesday claiming that the NSA at times posed as Facebook to infect user systems with malware in order to spy on them. A Facebook spokesperson declined to comment further on Zuckerberg's article, saying only that "the post speaks for itself."
The full post is below:
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