It's very painful to listen to the majority of our elected officials ask technical questions.
Zuck's live grilling on Facebook Live
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#32Congress is too old and clueless to ask smart questions. Zuck's acting all Lore from Star Trek. FB stock is up just because people keep thinking they'll beat this shit, which they won't.
Pretty sure they will beat this very easily. The few friends I have that actually raised concerns have already forgot it.
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#33It's a bit annoying when half the questions are basically 'how does Facebook work?'. Tech is still magic to most of the people asking the questions.
I can't believe a senator asked "How does Facebook make money." I thought it was a rhetorical question at first but the senator was like "Oh!" when Zuck said "Ads."
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is linking youtube ok but not facebook?
There is no official rule about it. IMO YouTube is a little more open then FB and FB may require you to login to view content.
> FB may require you to login to view content
It's available without login, at least on The Verge's page https://www.facebook.com/verge/videos/1779024592133876/
> IMO YouTube is a little more open then FB
Sigh. It's run by Google, please.
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#35Congress is too old and clueless to ask smart questions. Zuck's acting all Lore from Star Trek. FB stock is up just because people keep thinking they'll beat this shit, which they won't.
Pretty sure they will beat this very easily. The few friends I have that actually raised concerns have already forgot it.
My wife, my parents, my inlaws, they all use FB. Haven't heard a peep from one of them.
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#37I find it disappointing that many of the questions and Mr. Zuckerberg's answers regarding content shared on Facebook focus on pictures and textual messages. Very little discussion of gathering and use of PII such as name, gender, sexual orientation, location, likes, interests and social relationships. I believe these are the most valuable pieces of information to advertisers and data miners.
Just a semantic nit pick on PII (personally identifiable information)... Name is PII, location at a high enough resolution is PII. The rest are metadata about an individual but not PII. Knowing someone is a straight male doesn't tell you enough to identify a person. This is relevant because GDPR (and other things) special case PII.
Thank you for the correction.
Also absent from the discourse is how much Facebook uses inferences from behavioral data in building user profiles.
For example, let's say that I have not told Facebook my sexual orientation. Do they attempt to infer that missing information from what content I view, for how long and how frequently? Is such data shared with 3rd parties? Is it used in ad targeting?
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#38Senator: [question]
Zuckerberg: “...but it’s the only way we can reach BILLIONS of people!”
This super creepy line tells you all you need to know. Facebook is insane. Their leader has lost touch with reality and the physical world. Karen Horney, a psychoanalyst from the 1950’s, said that the final stage of psychosis is when someone believes themself to be a god. I don’t think Mark Zuckerberg is suffering psychosis, but what kind of person thinks, like some Egyptian Pharoh, it’s their right to reach all the masses of the Earth?
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#39Congress is too old and clueless to ask smart questions. Zuck's acting all Lore from Star Trek. FB stock is up just because people keep thinking they'll beat this shit, which they won't.
That's pretty harsh. Most aren't that old. But this is a tech news site and tech hates people over 30, so I guess this is to be expected.
As to their "cluelessness", most of the questions I saw weren't that bad. But, then, I don't expect them to be domain experts in everything.
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