No matter what went on with Facebook, I sincerely believe he never intended for any malicious use.
Senator Grassley always manages to say something that brings insight. It is true, Mark Zukerberg was born in the USA in 1984. He isn't from the US Senator Grassley's state of Iowa, but, from White Plains, New York. In the year 2004 he launched a website that attracted a great deal of attention over the years and he was a millionaire in no time. Mark Zuckerberg is living the American Dream on steroids.
It was the perfect storm for him and I congratulate him on his success and his ability to apply the knowledge he obtained into the company he pilots today. He is a great person and has meet leaders from every major country in the world. He is innocent of wrong doing, he is guilty of being one of the most successful young men in American history.
I think when he came up with "terms and conditions" which allowed him to collect all sorts of data, it was a matter of his own company's security. That came evident when he even collected data on people who came to the site, but, didn't join Facebook. No one can blame him for collecting data for the sake of protecting his invention.
Facebook has been so cutting edge in every way, there was nothing anyone could do but allow self-governance. What happened to the discussion of "net neutrality?"
Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites.
Well?
There is no way anyone can point a finger at Mr. Zuckerberg and his invention and state there is some degree of responsibility for loose use of Facebook when net neutrality WAS GOVERNANCE.
What occurred with the 2016 elections is very worrisome and I believe it attacks the USA sovereignty. Mark Zuckerberg never intended for an attack on the USA. What occurred in 2016 was a deliberate attack on the USA's power by Russia. While everyone was languishing in absolute freedom of expression on Facebook (within some limits of laws governing pedophilia, etc.) little did most realize the strongest hate speech was coming from Russians that had no interest in conservative voters best outcome, only their own.
Mr. Zuckerberg has had incredible opportunity in his life and incredible challenges the real world handed him without any guidance at all. I think he is a hell of a guy. He lives in a house surrounded by houses he owns just so he and his wife can have some sanity. That housing strategy was rather interesting as well. It has no bounds and one can wonder with such a person understanding a life of internet freedom, how it was built and continues to grow, how much physical land in the real world actually brings a sense of privacy and protection to him.
I don't know what kind of concoction of words and will resulted from his testimony. I have a feeling everyone in the US Congress, with their own political ambitions, will assert their ideas as necessary to control the internet. Most of the stuff will be hogwash and the courts will contend with it, but, I think Mark Zuckerberg was also helpful in his candor and willingness to participate in a very serious topic faced by the US Congress.
He, his talented wife and his expert staff (a to die for staff the US military wish was at it's disposal) should write their own law and when the US Congress writes theirs;' compare it and begin to roll back aspects that are unfair and unworkable. I am confident the US Congress will exert laws that will translate into plenty of computer glitches and will be unworkable for Facebook.
I wish him, his family and his company great success. I think, after today, he should continue to work on the best way forward. I trust his intellect.
April 11, 2018
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (click here) opened his testimony Tuesday on Capitol Hill with an apology — one that he’s repeated often since first acknowledging the firm Cambridge Analytica had improperly used personal information from as many as 87 million of the tech giant’s users: “I started Facebook, I run it, and I’m responsible for what happens here.”
But that wasn’t good enough for many of the 44 senators who grilled Zuckerberg during a five-hour hearing on how Facebook handles user privacy. The lawmakers, from the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees, focused on the company’s knowledge of its users, where and how that information was shared, whether its practices were legal, and what Facebook was doing to prevent a massive data breach from happening again.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., suggested Facebook was a monopoly, one that may need to have more federal oversight. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., asked Zuckerberg whether he’d be comfortable sharing what hotel he stayed in last night. When Zuckerberg, after a long, nervous pause, said “no,” Durbin pointed out that that’s exactly the kind of user information his company shares with advertisers....
