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> one member designated by the US government.

Why does the board of TikTok need a gov member? Is Meta going to get a gov chaperone too? And Oracle surely needs one as well.

Is the gov putting out a call for board member civil servants? Like where does this person even come from?

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Same reason they put a guy at CBS as a "bias monitor":

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-fcc-cbs-ne...

They want their guy to make sure things go their way / people say the "right" things.

Didn't expect to see the USA employing press censors in my lifetime but here we are.

In Brazil during the dictatorship it was common for newspapers to print cooking recipes in place of censored articles, now I'm waiting to see if media in the USA has the balls to play the malicious compliance game... I guess I won't see it since money is basically God in America.

One could argue they're not the same, but there has been TV broadcast censors for decades in the US. They were still least following somewhat defined laws though.

> They were still least following somewhat defined laws though.

I expect them to continue to do so, except that uncle Donald is the law now.

> a guy at CBS as a "bias monitor"

Kenneth Weinstein.

"Mr. Weinstein has had a long career in right-leaning and neoconservative public policy circles. He is a firm and vocal champion of Israel." (NyTimes)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_R._Weinstein

> Is Meta going to get a gov chaperone too?

They already got quite a few, post 2024 election.

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/01/dana-white-john-elkann-cha...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/tech/robby-starbuck-meta-ai-a...

Ha. I hadn’t seen the news in the latter link.

Washed-up music video director to professional Twitter poster to advisor at Facebook. What a display of the American meritocracy.

> Is Meta going to get a gov chaperone too?

I believe the technical name is "Political Commissar."

Edit: Dana White, of MMA fame, now sits on Meta's board, though it is at Zuckerberg's request.

At his request lol. Strong corporate governance structure.

Unsurprisingly, investors care more about returns than good governance structures. At least in the short term. I wonder how Page, Brin and Zuckerberg will handle their controlling stakes as they lose their fights against time.

It's the political komissar, here to make sure nothing too critical of the current administration is allowed on the platform.

This goes way beyond this current administration and has nothing to do with China, besides being the foil for the real reason of controlling what people can see and hear because the cabal that controls the USA does not like it.

Just so we know, who's the cabal?

Any do you act ignorant?

Why do you assume everyone knows?

List stuff out for all to see and learn.

Because it's obvious, it's the cabal of ruling class people that are effectively reestablishing a system comparable to the aristocracy that was ended with the US constitution and they have been working on destroying and undermining because it gave power to the people. Unfortunately, it is something that the multitude really have no ability to understand, which is precisely why the founders of the USA tried very hard not to extend power to the uninformed and incompetent multitude, just like how all of us prevent everyone from accessing our source-code for obvious reasons.

Yeah I want to know who the cabal is too. Release the kraken or whatever.

Oracle doesn’t need one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32596903

The whole country is turning into a joke, that's why.

What do you mean - the CCP has always had someone sit on the board of major companies… oh wait which country was this again?

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