Ugh. I tried watching this live, but couldn't stick with it. Republicans think this inquiry is about protecting privacy of unwitting Americans while Democrats think they can use it to prove Russia messed with elections. Zuckerberg thinks his anodyne "I want to connect all people in the world," and "Facebook is a platform to exchange all ideas" is going to fly without discussing the way he's managed to track untold millions of non-members.
Look at your own cookies, for example. Whichever browser, you will see Facebook in there twice. They get there because the sites that you visit have Facebook written into their code. You can check that too by B-clicking any site and selecting "view source" control/command "F" for "find" feature and enter "Facebook," boom, there it is, right there in the code. Those annoying link buttons that follow your scrolling are the things that are dropping tracking cookies onto your computers. Actually, browsers are fighting back, Firefox can disallow Facebook cookies and now so can Safari, for the most part, and I think Chrome and Brave can too.
But where Facebook is pushed away, Twitter takes up. Presently it is not possible to avoid Twitter cookies tracking your online activity. I gave up trying and simply accepted, member or not, I do use Twitter throughout the day. Nearly every minute of browsing. The message that appears before watching videos hosted on Twitter is quaint. Twitter cookies are already there, at least a hundred times a day, virtually every minute of the day, loaded site to site, as pages are opened. I kept the cookie window open and removed them nearly every single site that I opened. It's exhausting and unnecessarily infuriating. I don't like those sites, I don't like those people. But here I am using them.
Watching Zuckerberg produces a specific feeling of unease. He makes me feel German. Oh, what's that German word for a face in need of a fist?
Backpfeifengesicht, that's the feeling.
It's the way his shirt and tie hangs loosely that adds to it. He doesn't know how to fit collared shirts. I could fit him. But that would involve a bit of choking him nearly to death. The room is filled with a hundred good examples of good fitting shirts on impossibly shaped bodies, and great tie selections, and there he is in the center, ill-fitted, and wealthier than all the rest put together. In fact, he's paying most of his questioners. It's a ridiculous sight to behold and incredibly off-putting to hear.
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Lindsey Graham proudly proclaimed he never ever sent or read an email, but is now threatening to regulate Facebook. Half these Senate clowns probably have a VCR blinking 12:00 and the other half communicate by mimeograph. Then they ask Zuck how he should be regulated. Well Duh!
Any bets his suggestions will possibly strangle the little competition he has now?
I have to wonder just how dense are the businessmen that pour money into Facebook. My targeted ads are overwhelmingly for things I've already bought and not from clicking on web ads.
Twitter is an even bigger mystery. How in the hell do they make money? How can you target ads on twitter?
He wore a Communist suit (think Fidel or Khrushchev).
He also had a long prep in "charm and humility" (IOW they tried to teach him some manners).
I think what happens to FB is what happened to Ma Bell. Zuck, like Gates, who has a little more sense, wants to make everybody dance to his tune. The Honorables won't do him in, it's gonna be the bureaucrats.
Cruz acquitted himself well.
Ed, what do you mean about the Communist suit?
Google's mission statement is creepy:
“to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.”May 23, 2017
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