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Yeah, great idea. The regulated become the authors of the regulations. What could possibly go wrong with that.
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IMHO that was a completely inappropriate comment, as Mr. Zuckerberg's wife is of Chinese descent. I cringed.
How is the ethnicity of Zuck's wife relevant?
I would be embarrassed for the person saying this, as they don't know my family history (maybe I don't look Italian, I look like a viking, if one was to guess - which you shouldn't), and to be perfectly honest, it seems like Italians make fine cars (for a def. of, "fine")
Switch "Italian" with a minority with a current history of dealing with racism - and this scenario gets ugly, fast.
No one has a problem with that? If I was the person asking the question - or should I say, the person who looks over that dude's notes, I'd cross that stupid intro out. It bombed, anyways.
This reads like a group of senators begging Mark Zuckerberg to respect privacy.
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Didn't see the video, was the senator jesting or was he actually offended? (I suppose it's the former but you never know)
It was a joke, and everyone was laughing. Biggest audience response of the testimony.
I’m streaming it along side graphs of Facebook’s stock price here: https://twitch.tv/tareqak and I posted it on HN earlier here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16803453 .
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> Mark Zuckerberg does not believe he has a monopoly. I tend to agree with him. Facebook just happens to be the most popular Internet social network, right now , but there is nothing that makes it a monopoly. Anyone could replace it, there is nothing actively stopping them from doing so. I'm sure for decades the Ford Motor Company was thought of as a Monopoly... and then they went bankrupt, and that's just one compan…
Ford was never considered a monopoly. GM and Chrysler have been around since the early days. And even in the Model T days there were plenty of other cars. Also, Ford never went bankrupt, you might be thinking of Chrysler or GM, both of which filed for bankruptcy in 2009, although neither ceased operations (so not "bankrupt" in the colloquial sense). Facebook, on the other hand, what other network can I use? Twitter i…
Two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions."
Say what you will about the intelligence of agreeing to do this hearing at all, at least Zuckerberg is clearly reading from a well-prepared speech. Winging it would have been, er, inadvisable.
According to the Lobbying Disclosure Reports[0], if you add up outside council for Facebook, they're paying about $156,000 PER MONTH on lobbyists. You'll want to look at 2017 Q4 reports, as Q1 is not yet due and they don't file until it's absolutely due. [0]. http://disclosures.house.gov/ld/ldsearch.aspx
@off: Mr. Hatch seems like a really smart man.
"Is it true facebook can track user browsers even after they are logged out of facebook?" Zuck: "I need to get back to you on that"
I do not have the facebook app on my phone. I downloaded Instagram and it magically knew one of my email addresses (not the one used with my facebook account). I deleted it, mashed the keyboard for the new email address, declined syncing contacts, blocked the permission as well as every other permission, and lo and behold it still shows all of my facebook friends on instagram as suggestions. Fucking creepy.