Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before British MPs
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Re: Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before British MPs
#2Not a complete surprise, but I suspect this is a strategic mistake from Zuckerberg. It's going to send the wrong message, at a time when Facebook is already under pressure and regulators in the EU are about to be given the most powerful privacy tools (and the most heavy penalty regime) they've ever had to work with.
Re: Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before British MPs
#3Wrong time to chicken out. That will probably have serious consequences for FB in Europe and will help with convincing people to regulations like revenue-based taxation.
Re: Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before British MPs
#4It feels like Zuck is in panic and listening too much to his PR advisors who are likely telling him to stay out of the public until the storm settles. Not a smart move on this particular case
Re: Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before British MPs
#5It feels like Zuck is in panic and listening too much to his PR advisors who are likely telling him to stay out of the public until the storm settles. Not a smart move on this particular case
To be fair being called in front of MP's is like a ritualised grilling, nothing ever comes out of it other than total humiliation for the victim.
Re: Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before British MPs
#6It feels like Zuck is in panic and listening too much to his PR advisors who are likely telling him to stay out of the public until the storm settles. Not a smart move on this particular case
> Zuck is in panic and listening too much to his PR advisors
In all fairness, and with a healthy dose of irony, he isn't a terrific people person. At least not in front of the camera. Unfortunately, one of the jobs of the CEO of a crisis-stricken company is to be the face of the response.
Re: Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before British MPs
#7It feels like Zuck is in panic and listening too much to his PR advisors who are likely telling him to stay out of the public until the storm settles. Not a smart move on this particular case
To be fair being called in front of MP's is like a ritualised grilling, nothing ever comes out of it other than total humiliation for the victim.
Yes is this a new thing? I don't remember in the past the committees being so publicly snide and unpleasant like they seem to be now. Maybe it wasn't televised so prominently before?
And the most strange part is how they now have celebrity appearances as well - comedians and actors?
Re: Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before British MPs
#8Facebooks PR seems all over the place. It seems to go like this:
1) Blame users/say it wasn't as bad/not a breach
2) Controversy gets worse
3) Apologise, say we got it wrong, working on it
I think this is especially dumb as FB took out a personally-signed-by-Zuckerberg letter in 6 UK sunday papers last weekend. It looks very fake.
Re: Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before British MPs
#9What else would the world expect from a spineless little jerk?
Re: Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before British MPs
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair being called in front of MP's is like a ritualised grilling, nothing ever comes out of it other than total humiliation for the victim.
Yes is this a new thing? I don't remember in the past the committees being so publicly snide and unpleasant like they seem to be now. Maybe it wasn't televised so prominently before? And the most strange part is how they now have celebrity appearances as well - comedians and actors?
They always let loose a little - you can go back and look at old transcripts and see much the same thing.
There's a certain element of it becoming slightly worse due to being televised. In an era where there is a huge gap between government rhetoric and practice, it can be a useful way to signal ones 'principles' even as one files obediently through the government lobby when it comes to voting on actual legislation.