Lawyer drops Meta as consumer, citing Mark Zuckerberg’s “poisonous masculinity and Neo-Nazi insanity”

A sizzling potato: Mark Zuckerberg has undergone one thing of a private transformation over the previous few years, from a nerdy, lizard-like tech geek to an MMA-loving bro championing free speech and calling for extra masculine power. It is a change that has prompted a lawyer to drop Meta as a consumer as a result of its CEO’s “descent into poisonous masculinity and Neo-Nazi insanity.”

Stanford legislation professor Mark Lemley represented Meta in a 2023 copyright case during which the corporate used an information set containing copyrighted e-books to coach its LLMs, one thing it says needs to be thought of truthful use.

However Lemley will not be representing Meta any longer. In a LinkedIn publish, he says he has now fired the agency as a consumer, as he can’t in good conscience function its lawyer any longer.

Whereas Lemley says he nonetheless believes Meta is on the best facet of the AI copyright battle and hopes it wins the authorized battle, his drawback is with Zuckerberg and his “mid-life disaster.”

Lemley stated he will not be deactivating his Fb account due to the buddies and connections he has on the platform. Nevertheless, he has left Threads in favor of Bluesky, which many individuals joined after leaving X/Twitter, and can now not purchase something from the adverts he sees on Fb or Instagram.

Zuckerberg’s evolution will be traced again to the pandemic. Like many individuals who have been bored through the lockdowns, he began a brand new pastime in the summertime of 2020. His alternative was Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, which later expanded to incorporate different MMA disciplines. He has since competed in a BJJ match and skilled with a few of UFC’s finest fighters. For some time, it appeared that Zuckerberg was going to battle Elon Musk, however the match by no means occurred.

Zuckerberg appears to have grow to be much more like Musk since Trump was re-elected. He lately stated Fb and Instagram could be eliminating “politically biased” third-party truth checkers in favor of X-style group notes, whereas additionally eliminating its DEI packages. The CEO complained that there was “an excessive amount of censorship” on the social media websites.

Zuckerberg confirmed off his new persona throughout his latest look on the Joe Rogan podcast, the place he stated that firms want extra “masculine power.”

@thenewsmovement Mark Zuckerberg advised Joe Rogan company tradition had misplaced its ‘masculine power’. The CEO of Meta was speaking after he had simply introduced that UFC’s Dana White would now be on the board of Meta. Rogan is a commentator for UFC and a very long time good friend of White’s. Zuckerberg spoke to Rogan for practically three hours and the pair mentioned their love of martial arts, sparking Zuckerberg’s feedback about masculinity. Zuckerberg stated that company tradition had grow to be ‘neutered’. #meta #zuckerberg #joerogan #markzuckerberg ♬ unique sound – The Information Motion

“I feel a variety of the company world is fairly culturally neutered. Masculine power is sweet, and clearly, society has loads of that, however I feel company tradition was actually making an attempt to get away from it,” Zuckerberg stated. “I feel having a tradition that celebrates the aggression a bit extra has its personal deserves which might be actually optimistic.”

One of many three males Meta simply added to its board was Dana White, the CEO of UFC, who’s about as masculine because it will get.