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Senate fails its Zuckerberg test

Congress doesn't understand Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg emerged unscathed from Tuesday's Senate committee hearing, and he did so in large part because most of the senators who asked him questions had no clue how Facebook worked, what the solutions to its problems are, or even what they were trying to achieve by calling its CEO to testify, other than getting some good soundbites in.

What the first day of the Zuckerberg hearings made clear is that many American lawmakers are illiterate when it comes to 21st century technology. On multiple occasions, it seemed like lawmakers were simply asking Zuckerberg how Facebook worked. Several questions displayed an ignorance about the very basics of the platform and its business model.

"How do you sustain a business model in which users don't pay for your service?" Sen. Orrin Hatch asked.
"Senator, we run ads," Zuckerberg replied.

"How many data categories do you store, does Facebook store, on the categories that you collect?" Sen. Deb Fischer asked.
"Senator, can you clarify what you mean by data categories?" said the Facebook CEO. "I'm not actually sure what that is referring to."

In one of the most memorable exchanges, Sen. John Kennedy began by telling Zuckerberg that Facebook's user agreement "sucked," then listed off a number of steps Facebook should take to improve data privacy -- only to be repeatedly told by Zuckerberg that those measures were already in place.

Kennedy: "Are you willing to go back and work on giving me a greater right to erase my data?"
Zuckerberg: "Senator, you can already delete any of the data that's there or delete all of your data."
Kennedy: "Are you willing to expand my right to prohibit you from sharing my data?"
Zuckerberg: "Senator, again, I believe that you already have that control...."
Kennedy: "Are you willing to give me the right to take my data on Facebook and move it to another social media platform?"
Zuckerberg: "Senator, you can already do that...."

There was perhaps no clearer sign that Zuckerberg had been left unscathed than when, given the opportunity to take a break from questioning, he replied: "We can do a few more."
 
Don't they all have recent college grad aides? And don't those people prepare questions for them?
 
Monica with the zinger!

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scotchandcigar said:
The thought of the National Enquirer paying to kill a sensational tabloid story, is perhaps even more bizarre than having a reality TV snake-oil salesman as president
Former doorman involved in story of alleged Trump affair speaks
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It's a standard practice in the tabloid industry. They buy stories they don't run, and they even use them as blackmail to get other stories. They get celebrities to rat out other celebrities in exchange for spiking stories on the first celebrity.

David J. Pecker (real name), the CEO of AMI, is buds with Trump. AMI owns National Enquirer, National Examiner, Star, US Weekly, OK! and RadarOnline.

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It’s gonna be hard to turn away from this Astros-Rangers game at 10pm.

Big Sexy has a no hitter going thru 6 innings against the Astros
 
Season 3 of The Circus on Showtime started last night. I like that show. It's an often lighthearted political docu-series type deal that covers the previous week's events but they often discuss serious issues. It was best during the 2016 election but it's still good now.

They got a new co-host too. There are 3 stars of the show and 1 used to be Mark Halperin. He got the boot after misconduct accusations and they replaced him with Alex Wagner from CBS. Kinda on the nose to replace Halperin with a broad but so far she is fine. Also kinda a bummer that they don't even spend 5 seconds addressing the host change.

Whatever, it's still a good program.

Showtime’s ‘Circus’ returns with new co-host Alex Wagner
 
JHDK said:
Season 3 of The Circus on Showtime started last night. I like that show. It's an often lighthearted political docu-series type deal that covers the previous week's events but they often discuss serious issues. It was best during the 2016 election but it's still good now.

They got a new co-host too. There are 3 stars of the show and 1 used to be Mark Halperin. He got the boot after misconduct accusations and they replaced him with Alex Wagner from CBS. Kinda on the nose to replace Halperin with a broad but so far she is fine. Also kinda a bummer that they don't even spend 5 seconds addressing the host change.

Whatever, it's still a good program.

Showtime’s ‘Circus’ returns with new co-host Alex Wagner
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That must be the program I saw the last 5 minutes of, when I tuned into Homeland.
 
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