Thank you TPM. I was posting on another thread. Zuckerberg is a joke. Heâs loving that Rethugs first statement, almost to a person, is to start with saying they donât want to regulate Facebook. When the shoe suddenly shows up on the other foot, you can bet those Pukes will be singing a whole different tune. For now, theyâre content that most of the hacks and scraping of data by bad actors has benefited them, but that wonât always be the case. Soon enough, it will be their time in the barrel.
I really donât think Zuckerberg knows how Facebook even works anymore at a granular level. He has people that do that for him now, writing code and all the rest. Heâs seems to know so little about his own platformâŚor is acting particularly opaque. Cookies. My gawd. Heâs talking so simplistic for these Congresscritters and yet, explaining basically nothing to them thatâs of any significant import regarding his company or the privacy concerns heâs come there to address.
If I had a nickel for every time heâs said âweâre working on thatâ, Iâd have enough money in 45 minutes so far to buy dinner for two at a nice restaurant.
Iâm dropping in on the live stream on Facebook (!). Sorry, but is not coming across well at all: evasive, dissembling, defensive. Iâll be interested to see if he improves over the course of his appearance.
Been listening to this and so far, all the hard questions, Zuckerberg responds with âIâll get back to you on that.â One of the older senators (not Grassass) didnât even seem to know that Facebook makes money through the ads.
So far, no. Heâs only getting worse. Heâs doing some childish avoidance dance with these lawmakers. He is purely defensive and offering very little, especially by way of honestly addressing any problems. Everything is âwe can do betterâ, âweâre working on itâ, âIâll have to look into thatâ. Its pure bullshit. He ainât gonna do shit. Heâs gonna have to be made to do shit he doesnât want to do. Pure and simple.
Has he offered to name his child after Trump or possible McConnell as a mea culpa?
Heâs offering a product like a toaster or whatever. Products can be regulated for safety and consumer protection. Its that simple. Facebook isnât all that different imo when the productâs company steals your info and letâs others have free rein to use it without much oversight.
âAfter resisting previous calls to testify, Zuckerberg agreed to come to Capitol Hill.â
Well, you canât blame the guy for wanting to protect his and his familyâs privacy for so long.
Oh, waitâŚ
Did you hear his opening statement? It was his Dâvar Torah Redux, Iâm pretty sure.
Go Blumenthal! Made Zuck blush!
Also, Facebook as a product makes Zuckerberg and his shareholders a lot of fucking money. Time to invest some of that money back into the platform as a way to protect others from identity theft and blatant propaganda.
Graham showed Zuck a 4-inch pile of papers that are Facebookâs Terms and Services and tells him they need to do better in his own snarky way. He asks if he expects anyone to read all of that, and Zuck agrees that most people probably donât and wonât. Graham then said something like âdonât you need to do something about that?â and Zuck says, âI donât know what you meanâ and then âno, not reallyâ.
Zuckerberg is tone deaf to the problems his company has helped to create. He wants no one to know what they can do to fight back but offers pablum and minimalist answers to avoid any deep level discussion into the actual platform his company provides.
Zuckerberg is a twit.
He really does get the big picture, but is not going to fess up to their wrong doing. He is well coached, but many of the Senators arenât buying his bullshit. Except for Hatch, he wouldnât know the value of regulation if it bit him in his son-in-laws butt. (look it up)
Iâm going to start telling everyone I work with âI am going to have my team get back to youâ to prove I am a pretentious asshole.
Facebook is a public company. The board needs to fire the top staff including Zuckerberg and claw back $5B just to show him and the rest of these pricks that privacy trumps greed every time.
Most of us just think Facebook is about monetizing friendships, Mark. However, could you explain âsiloingâ for the folks at home?
The comments scrolling below the Facebook live feed are pretty stupid. Most think this is just about changing your privacy settingsâŚsmh
OK, last one on this threadâŚI donât wanna be a bogart here but what really pisses me off is that even though I donât use Facebook, have never signed up for it even under immense pressure from my son and others in my family, my friends and families use Facebook. So as I understand it, any mention of me using any manner of personal information about me on their Facebook pages are now subject to similar data scraping by these same bad actors, who use every means to get as much info as possible for whatever purposes they choose. Thatâs just creepy. Since I never consented to any of that just by virtue of being mentioned on someoneâs Facebook page in the most innocuous way, I find that a potential invasion of privacy if Facebook doesnât protect all its users. Am I wrong about this?
Dumped Facebook years ago. Zuckerberg should be in jailâŚ
The saddest part is that Facebook users think theyâre âthe customerâ.
When theyâre really just âthe productâ.
Itâs only a matter of time until they start demanding a Facebook 24/7 listening-device version of Alexa.
(They could call it âAlekskayaâ.)
Um, yeah, kinda. If you have never signed up for an account, FB has no info on you. However, if you show up in a photo on a userâs page, that may be scraped. Unless the mention includes your full name and address, etc., you could be anyone as far as FB is concerned. Unless you have an Instagram account. Then your info is linked to FB. Clear as mud?
When Durbin asked Zuck if he wouldnât mind telling everyone where he slept in DC last night and at what hotel, Zuck said âno, of course I wonâtâ. He still didnât seem to get it. That shithead is dense. It took a few more examples before the schmuck actually caught on.