Ted Cruz Grills Mark Zuckerberg

[timosman]

[VIDEODROME]

lol have to go to work, but I gotta watch this later.

[Raginfridus]

Zucker looks like a manikin.

[Marenco]

Zucker looks like a manikin.

Breaking News: The 1st Mannequin to testify before Congress...

[asurfaholic]

Posted in pic thread, but here for relevance

[eleganz]

Today proves that Mark Zuckerberg is Data from Star Trek

[Swordsmyth]

Today proves that Mark Zuckerberg is Data from Star Trek

Lore.

[EBounding]

That was disappointing. I’m not seeing any “gotcha” moments here.

[Danke]

Zuckerberg Loses Contact Lens During Senate Hearing Revealing Horrifying Lizard Eye
April 10, 2018




WASHINGTON, D.C.—During his much-publicized appearance before a bipartisan Senate committee Tuesday, the false, humanlike contact lens Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had placed over his left eye accidentally fell out, revealing the horrifying yellow lizard eye lying underneath.


“Senator, I don’t have that information with me right now,” the tech billionaire said for the seven hundredth time just before the incident. As he moved to take a drink of water to appear like a real human who thirsts, the faux human-eye lens fell out of his eye socket and the awful, piercing alien eyeball underneath quickly focused on the Senator questioning him.


As the room full of lawmakers and press collectively gasped, the Senator pointed at Zuckerberg and exclaimed, “Your eye fell out! You’re a … monster!” prompting Zuckerberg to reply monotonously, “Senator, thank you, I will have my team get back to you on that.”

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[Cutlerzzz]

Lol, we have the government grilling a private actor for not allowing freedom of speech and it is now trying to pressure that private entity to support their arguments.

[Danke]

Lol, we have the government grilling a private actor for not allowing freedom of speech and it is now trying to pressure that private entity to support their arguments.

When did he become a private actor?

[Cutlerzzz]

When did he become a private actor?

He was never anything else.

[Danke]

He was never anything else.

So many videos, so little time.

Here is one:

[Cutlerzzz]

So many videos, so little time.

Here is one:

Lol

[Danke]

[Danke]

Lol

[Danke]

Lol

Less than a minute to respond to a video over 5 minutes, amazing.

let me correct that, you didn't respond.

[kpitcher]

Posted in pic thread, but here for relevance

maybe he's just prepared in case things go really bad

[dean.engelhardt]

Lol, we have the government grilling a private actor for not allowing freedom of speech and it is now trying to pressure that private entity to support their arguments.

I've seen a couple of the videos. I looks the government is arguing for socialist control of a private business and Zuckerbreg is arguing for capitalism and private property rights. The first amendment is to stop the government from taking your freedom of speech. I do not want the government controlling/regulating Facebook in the name of free speech. What stops government from controlling other types of media in the name of free speech?

Zuckerberg should just give congress the finger.

[Danke]

A Bunch of Senators Just Showed They Have No Idea How Facebook Works. They Want to Regulate It Anyway.


"If Facebook and other online companies will not or cannot fix their privacy invasions, then we are going to have to. We, the Congress."
Robby Soave|Apr. 10, 2018 6:35 pm







Screenshot via C-SPANOn Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary and Commerce, Science, and Transportation committees grilled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the company's insufficient efforts to protect users' personal data.


In doing so, many of the senators betrayed a general lack of knowledge about how Facebook operates. Imagine trying to explain social media to your grandparents—this was essentially Zuckerberg's task.


Sen. Roy Blunt, (R–Mo.), for instance, didn't seem to understand that Facebook lacks a means of accessing information from other apps unless users specifically opt-in. The same was true of Sen. Roger Wicker (R–Miss.), who needed a lot of clarification on how Facebook Messenger interacts with cellular service. Zuckerberg had to carefully explain to Sen. Brian Schatz (D–Hawaii) that WhatsApp is encrypted, and Facebook can't read, let alone monetize, the information people exchange using that service. Zuckerberg had to explain to multiple senators, including Dean Heller (R–Nev.), that Facebook doesn't technically sell its data: the ad companies don't get to see the raw information.


Sen. Patrick Leahy (D–Vt.) brought along a poster on which his office had printed out images of various Facebook pages. Leahy asked whether these were Russian propaganda groups. "Senator, are you asking about those specifically?" Zuckerberg asked. He of course had no way of knowing what was going on with those specific pages, just from looking at pictures of them. "I'm not familiar with those pieces of content," Zuckerberg finally conceded.


Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D–Minn.) offered this metaphor to explain Facebook's recent troubles: "the way I explain it to my constituents is that if someone breaks into my apartment with a crowbar and takes my stuff, it's just like if the manager gave them the keys." But that metaphor doesn't quite work—Facebook didn't willfully assist in a crime. Meanwhile, Sen. Debbie Fischer (R–Neb.) didn't understand, at a fundamental level, that if you're using Facebook, you have agreed to let Facebook know a lot of information about you.


Sen. Lindsey Graham (R–S.C.) asked whether Facebook had any major competitors. Zuckerberg tried to explain that the company competes across different categories related to Facebook's several main functions—as a tech giant, against Google, as a social media site, against Twitter, and so on—which led Graham to fret about Facebook being a monopoly and thus incapable of self-regulation. Nevertheless, Graham asked Zuckerberg whether the CEO would be willing to propose regulations that Facebook might like the government to impose on it.


Some senators, including Sen. John Cornyn (R–Texas) and Richard Blumenthal (D–Conn.), asked perceptive questions about Facebook's data collection practices. Even so, Blumenthal also asked whether users should be able to access all the information Facebook has on them—prompting Zuckerberg to point out that Facebook already lets users download their data.


Throughout the hearing, Zuckerberg maintained that he wasn't against regulation, "if it's the right regulation." However, he expressed concern that regulations aimed at preventing Facebook from functioning as a monopoly might backfire and simply make it more difficult for smaller firms to compete.


But senators on both sides of the political aisle were clear about their concerns—and more than willing to step in.


"If Facebook and other online companies will not or cannot fix their privacy invasions, then we are going to have to," said Sen. Bill Nelson (D–Fla.). "We, the Congress."


What Nelson and his colleagues largely failed to do was demonstrate that "we, the Congress" possess the requisite knowledge to regulate Facebook, or that those regulations would improve upon the policies Facebook would like to implement on its own. Ignorance breeds bad policy: consider the terrible Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), passed by "we the Congress" recently, which has already dealt serious blows to free expression on the internet.
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[Ender]

I've seen a couple of the videos. I looks the government is arguing for socialist control of a private business and Zuckerbreg is arguing for capitalism and private property rights. The first amendment is to stop the government from taking your freedom of speech. I do not want the government controlling/regulating Facebook in the name of free speech. What stops government from controlling other types of media in the name of free speech?

Zuckerberg should just give congress the finger.

That was pretty much my take. Plus the irony of Congress talking about people's privacy.

[undergroundrr]

It's laughable for any fedgover in the post-Snowden era (except the obvious few) to grill Zuckerberg about privacy violations.

People enter into an agreement when they sign up for Facebook. Doesn't matter if the NSA or Larry Flynt bought your selfies from Mark Z. If a violation of the terms of service happens, take it to court.

Dog
and
pony
show

[goldenequity]

This is facebook
if Zuckerberg was doing this outside your bathroom window he'd be in jail
but because he does it from his gated home and you use his platform it's fine

[timosman]

#winning - zuck

[Swordsmyth]

This is facebook
if Zuckerberg was doing this outside your bathroom window he'd be in jail
but because he does it from his gated home and you use his platform it's fine

[Madison320]

I've seen a couple of the videos. I looks the government is arguing for socialist control of a private business and Zuckerbreg is arguing for capitalism and private property rights. The first amendment is to stop the government from taking your freedom of speech. I do not want the government controlling/regulating Facebook in the name of free speech. What stops government from controlling other types of media in the name of free speech?

Zuckerberg should just give congress the finger.

I can't watch the video. I hate it when congress does this self righteous, trying to gain points, hypocritical bull-crap. I can't believe people here are taking this seriously or siding against Zuckerberg.

[Madison320]

It's laughable for any fedgover in the post-Snowden era (except the obvious few) to grill Zuckerberg about privacy violations.

People enter into an agreement when they sign up for Facebook. Doesn't matter if the NSA or Larry Flynt bought your selfies from Mark Z. If a violation of the terms of service happens, take it to court.

Dog
and
pony
show

I totally agree, the whole thing is a joke.

[Danke]

I can't watch the video. I hate it when congress does this self righteous, trying to gain points, hypocritical bull-crap. I can't believe people here are taking this seriously or siding against Zuckerberg.

They are just trying to pressure the kid to donate more to them and their causes, like Bill Gates.

[Anti Globalist]

Posted in pic thread, but here for relevance

Using a booster seat to make him look taller. Apparently he can't accept that hes 5'7.

[timosman]

They are just trying to pressure the kid to donate more to them and their causes, like Bill Gates.

You lose the rights to this title once you make your first $1M.