No one is talking about the fact that Mark Z. was not even sworn in before his testimony. How many of us average people would have gotten such a deal? Hillary got the same ‘nice treatment’ from the FBI in 2016. My guess is that was the only was he was going to give testimony at that time without a subpoena.
One thing was so bad (in an end-of-the-US-as-we-knew-it way) that it was funny: Blacks complained about the low number of black FB employees and none on the Board of Trustees. But they didn't have one word of support for Diamond and Silk. Conservatives complained about Diamond and Silk being disallowed access of FB because they're dangerous, but not about the lack of diversity in FB employees.
But NOBODY complained about the use and mostly abuse of H1B Visas by FB. One can only conclude that there's no one in the DC swamp that cares about US citizens being replaced with cheaper labor, as long as it's someone they don't agree with.
After that hearing, I pray that DC doesn't get involved in regulating these sites. I trust MarkZ more than I trust the DC Swamp.
We’ve managed to create more of an Orwellian dystopia than even Orwell himself could have ever imagined:
* Where human beings no longer interact in an arena of physical presence and discourse, where individual mannerisms and reactions can be directly observed.
* Where all are driven by a wholly fabricated and frenetic “immediacy of need and gratification.”
* Where the speed of information is purposely designed to defeat the need for rigorous examination for objective truth and reliability.
* Where unfounded and unqualified opinions that are unencumbered by reality, have replaced proven, observable and historical facts as the new evidentiary standard.
* Where 2% minority beliefs are granted greater weight, validity and exposure than the 98% majority.
* Where hate, outrage and death threats can be launced against others from anonymous locations without fear of confrontation or the consequences of retribution.
* Where, like Gregorian chants for the mindless unwashed masses, entire political belief systems are reduced to ethereal and meaningless, but easily-digestible slogans like “Hope And Change,” “Yes We Can” and “I;m With Her.”
* Where the need to form and develop one’s own original critical opinions and beliefs are replaced by parroting those of other’s via “Like” and “Share.”
* Where, when “triggered,” one’s world can be completely scrubbed and sanitized of uncomfortable dissenting opinions and beliefs simply by clicking on “Unfriend.”
This list goes on and on, and yet we wonder why our society has become so simplistic, polarized and entrenched? Still, this is what being herded into separate “identity silos” is all about. Anyone who believes that all of this is purely coincidental couldn’t find themselves further from the truth.
There is no excuse for being stupid. With only a few exceptions, most politicians are morons or just pretend to be imbeciles to avoid doing their sworn duty. They are so pathetic. 9/11 was the catalyst for government and tech entities to totally rape American privacy.
We learned belatedly that Facebook sent “a doctor” on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patients’ confidential health data.
The whitewashed story for public consumption is Facebook asked several major U.S. hospitals to share
anonymized data about their patients (eg. illnesses and prescription info), for a “proposed research project.”
Facebook “said” it intended to match it up with user data it collected, to “help” the hospitals figure out which patients might need special care or treatment.
Oh please, this is so much BS......language designed to paper over another one of many of Facebook’s nefarious activities.
As we have learned to our dismay, the public Facebook-—all sweetness and light—— “says” one thing for public consumption,
but behind the scenes is a different story.
REALITY CHECK-——coordinating medical data with F/B’s data vacuuming, Facebook could get valuable info to P/Parenthood
abortion chambers and baby body parts sales on students’ intimacies...... their sex lives .......and their views on birth control and abortion.
You Tube has a comment on this?
Pot? Meet Kettle! You Tube censors Conservatives as they see fit, too.
Good stuff.
Zuckerberg should have been flogged and then put on his private jet for home.
Same with the CEO for Google.
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Voter information is king. The king of voter information is zuckerberg.
Why would the major consumers of zuckerberg’s product want to kneecap the king?
What has occurred can not be undone so everything the little weasel says is a lot of cr**.
I remember the Howard Hughes hearings. They were a circus act complete with clowns (senators). Hughes ate Senator Brewster (Lib Maine)for a snack. Called him a liar right to his face. Cross examined him like a pro lawyer and got him to admit he was in TWA’s hip pocket along with their wallet.
IFFA WOULDA SHOULDA COULDA...
It was a show. It was meant to make an ignorant public think that FB had been negligent and that there was a big bad conservative company that came in during the wee hours of the night and stole personal data and that clean shaven, suit and tie, just-visited-the-makeup-artist zuckerburg is clean as can be and had nothing to do with it and didn’t make a billion or two off our information.
Big joke.
There should have never even been a hearing. It’s all in the EULA, all the data is their data to do with as they please. This is what people signed up for.
Electric shocks from the thing on which he was sitting?
Special consul Mueller should have sent to investigate him for collusion with Russia.