WaPo: The Zuckerberg hearings, condensed

[FailureToCommunicate]

"Senator: Welcome to the Facebook hearings on Capitol Hill, which, if you have even the faintest understanding about what Facebook does with data, will leave you enraged and frustrated. These two days will be like being trapped in a glass box watching your aging parents try to install a software update. Hours will pass as they keep minimizing windows and double-clicking things, expecting this to achieve some effect, and you will pound on the glass until your fists are numb.

Senator 1: Mr. Zuckerberg, we hear that you started Facebook in your dorm room.

Mark Zuckerberg: Senator, yes.

Senator 1: I will now haltingly read a question that an aide who understands this technology better than I do has prepared, but I will mangle it slightly so that its premise is obviously wrong.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2018/04/11/the-zuckerberg-hearings-condensed/?utm_term=.d45537fc31ef

(Zinger from the comments section: "Poor Zuckerberg. All he wanted to do was create a better way to rank college girls by hotness. Instead he ended up helping install a fascist con man in the White House."

[BigmanPigman]

1. I am li,e those old people who doesn't know tech stuff

but even I know that he was up to greedy, lying BS. People who DO know him say that he could have changed things (he was offered a lot of advice from tech friends years ago) but he blew them off. Roger McNammee and Steve Wozniak both have said it is not in Fuckerberg's personality to make real changes for the good of his customers and country.