Zuckerberg Says U.S. Government Is a Threat to the Internet

Not fast enough on surveillance reform

Mark Zuckerberg took to his Facebook page today to express his frustrations with U.S. government's slow progress on surveillance reform. He even went so far as to call the government a "threat" to the Internet.

By spying on citizens, the government is undermining all the work Facebook has done to keep Facebook "safer and more secure," Zuckerberg wrote. "When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we're protecting you against criminals, not our own government," Zuckerberg wrote. 

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