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2018-04-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-

‘Um, uh, no': Zuckerberg not keen to reveal own personal info

Washington (AFP) ‐ Of the hundreds of questions thrown at Mark Zuckerberg by US lawmakers Tuesday, none appeared to flummox the Facebook founder more than Senator Dick Durbin’s pointed query about where he slept the previous evening.

"Would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night?" Durbin asked during an intense and closely-watched hearing about online digital privacy, and Facebook’s role in what happens to personal information once users join the platform.

Zuckerberg paused for a full eight seconds, chuckled, grimaced, and ultimately demurred.

"Um, uh, no," he said.

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-11 06:20|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Of course he's not stupid, but he's banking heavily that you and me are.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-11 06:24|| 2018-04-11 06:24|| Front Page Top

#2 MZ's worth went up by $3-billion as the result of testifying. Not a bad payday.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-04-11 09:08|| 2018-04-11 09:08|| Front Page Top

#3 1. Zuckerberg's own testimony says that Facebook is a publisher responsible for content on the site
2. Russian bots posted false news all over the site during the election
3. Zuckerberg by his own definition is a traitor who helped the Russians attempts to influence the election. Arrest him, confiscate his money, and make Facebook a public utility.
4. Not really, but one can dream.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-04-11 09:48|| 2018-04-11 09:48|| Front Page Top

#4 If I were the Feds and concerned about FB, I believe I would have come at it from a 'Pineland' model. Pineland being a shadowy, English or French speaking foreign entity desiring to purchase data on potentially non-US personnel.

The FB model might, I say again might, be more easily uncloaked.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-11 10:54|| 2018-04-11 10:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Call me old fashioned or just plain old but I cannot understand how FB is compared to a public utility. It has no resemblance whatsoever to water, electricity or gas. It is not a sewer or a freeway or a bus company. Nobody really needs it. We all got along just fine before it was invented and if it went away tomorrow we'd all continue to get along just fine. Nobody is twisting your arm to make you use it so if you don't like it, don't use it. I sure don't. I don't care what Zuckerberg has done or what has been done to him. It's totally irrelevant.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-04-11 10:59|| 2018-04-11 10:59|| Front Page Top

#6 FB is simply too lucrative a collection platform not to be exploited by intelligence services and police state entities the world over.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-11 11:08|| 2018-04-11 11:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Call me old fashioned or just plain old but I cannot understand how FB is compared to a public utility.

Not that I agree with the idea I'm about to present, but perhaps it might be interesting.

At one time there was no sewer. Then it was invented. Same for water. Electricity. Phone. Gas. Cable. Internet.

Now we have the function that FB serves. If it and everything like it were ripped away, it would create problems. Not on the scale that ripping away the other more fundamental utilities mentioned, however.

Posted by gorb 2018-04-11 14:54|| 2018-04-11 14:54|| Front Page Top