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> (Zuckerberg already has a small private army protecting him with heavy weaponry)

Source? I agree with your ideas overall but I'm genuinely interested in this aspect.

There's some details here:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-28/facebook-...

I think calling four full time guards a "small private army" is a little hyperbolic, but it is safe to say he is heavily protected.

Kinda BS, to be honest. The CEO of Canada Goose Jackets has full time protection. If you're worth a lot of money you need to be careful with your security.

Maybe most of the time King Zuck only has 4 people guarding him personally, but if you think that facebook security staff that he controls is just those 4 guys, you're crazy.

Very wealthy individuals hire private security to protect themselves because they are targets for a class of crime (kidnapping, extortion, etc) that average people have a negligible chance of being targeted for. Private army is a stretch of the terms but technically accurate.

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