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MZ has been well prepared it seems. They pay a LOT for their lobbyists, and his answers have the very cogent, clear, forceful sound of someone who has been well prepared.
There seem to be multiple feeds with different angles. The one posted by the Guardian is currently pointed at the current person speaking, e.g. the Senators. Bloomberg, though, has a feed in which the camera is focused on Zuckerberg's face for the entirety of the hearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyJosQBtzsw
The PBS News Hour feed puts them side by side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAZiDRonYZI
https://www.c-span.org/video/?443543-1/facebook-ceo-mark-zuc...
> MZ: "There will always be a version of Facebook that is free.
Coming soon, Facebook Pro(TM)! Literally putting a price on your privacy.
I'm pretty impressed with how well the chairmen are grilling Mark. He's dodging a bit and they're not having any of it. I've never seen a hearing on this sort of thing before, but given the generational gap and the news that Facebook had donated to the campaigns of almost all of the people on the committee, I was expecting Zuck to get off early.
MZ: "You control and own the content you post on Facebook" Something seems just a tad bit disingenuous about this.
It was an answer to a question that wasn't asked. The senator was asking whether facebook owns that data it has about a person, and the answer was that you own what you post. Those are very different sets. A follow up to answer whether facebook believes it owns the data it's accumulated about you would've been great.
As I write this, Ms Cantwell starts her questioning and it is a markedly different style. Interesting
I guess I'm still confused about this matter. As I understand it, nothing was exploited. A company used intrinsic capabilities of the system to do a job. Are we just raising the question of whether this is an appropriate business model? I suppose that's a good discussion to have. I'm just a bit miffed that we're effectively holding another obscenities hearing while the only thing going on with the Equifax debacle is…
MZ: "You control and own the content you post on Facebook" Something seems just a tad bit disingenuous about this.