By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--April 12, 2018
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"Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent two days on Capitol Hill seeking to placate angry lawmakers by saying he would be open to some sort of regulation to protect the privacy of users on his global social-media platform." (WSJ)Zuckerberg already knows that his company won't be open to "some sort of regulation to protect the privacy of his users" because the same lawmakers questioning him, are the ones who invest heavily in his company. Talk is cheap especially for elected officials!
"The question now is whether Washington will create regulations that address increasingly widespread concerns about digital privacy, and how any new constraints would squeeze the business models of companies like Facebook that rely on the free flow of data." (WSJ)
"That tension was at the heart of Mr. Zuckerberg's two days of testimony. He signaled repeatedly that he had learned the lesson of the recent data-breach scandals that have been dogging the company. And yet, when the discussion turned to details about how industrywide rules might help protect user data, he often couched his willingness to embrace new rules with warnings about poor regulation leading to unintended consequences." (WSJ)Tigers never change their stripes, nor leopards their spots, nor skunks their tell-tale stench. Just one year before founding Facebook, Zuckerberg ran Facemash, which once posted pictures of female Harvard University students asking the public to judge the "hottest". (Wired: Why Zuckerberg's 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn't Fixed Facebook, April, 6, 2018) Zuckerberg was sorry then too, but that never stopped him from founding the world's largest social media now under attack for selling the personal information of their own clientele for advertising revenues. During his Congress questioning, the Facebook CEO sounded just like your typical bleeding heart liberal:
"In response to a question from Rep. Fred Upton (R., Mich.), Mr. Zuckerberg said he thought it was "inevitable that there will need to be some regulation." Then he immediately warned against going too far. "You have to be careful about what regulations you put in place," he said. (WSJ)The entire Facebook scandal leans heavily on Cambridge Analytica being "Trump-affiliated". Proving that there are no Sherlock Holmes types in all of Congress, it went right over their heads that Trump campaign phased out use of Cambridge Analytica data before election (CBS News, March 18, 2018) Meanwhile, Congress and Zuck proved nothing but their partisan palsmanship to an observing John and Josephine Q. Public because untold numbers of water-logged frogs wanted out of the Facebook boiling cauldron long before this week's Congressional Hearings. Someday a non-political frog, one who looks like President Donald Trump and who is totally unrelated to government, will set all Facebook frogs free. Canada Free Press is currently looking into: Gab, MeWe and Freedom Vine. Try them out and give us some feedback. Thank you.
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