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Senators have no idea how Facebook works, want to regulate it anyway

• SlowBro 9y ago
  Aren't these the same people who were being asked to regulate ISPs during the net neutrality debate?
  • Fins 9y ago
    Aren't they also the same people you (generic you, in case you're not American) voted in?
    • SlowBro 9y ago
      Yep, not me personally, but a majority of voters in my country chose these senators.
      • Fins 9y ago
        Exactly. And they are the ones who write laws for us. Some even far more important than ISP regulations or what to do with Facebook.
        • SlowBro 9y ago
          Exactly. Maybe we should not ask them to regulate what they do not understand?
          • Fins 9y ago
            That's sort of their job, to regulate things. I was gong to say trying to elect people who at least know what they don't know might be a better approach.
• Slansitartop 9y ago
  > Sen. Lindsey Graham (R–S.C.) asked whether Facebook had any major competitors. Zuckerberg tried to explain that the company competes across different categories related to Facebook's several main functions—as a tech giant, against Google, as a social media site, against Twitter, and so on—which led Graham to fret about Facebook being a monopoly and thus incapable of self-regulation. IIRC, Graham had a good point. At his point, Facebook has no real competitors that offer an equivalent service. To continue the analogy from the question: Zuck's dodge was a lot like a monopolist automaker trying to pass off Sony as a competitor because they both sell products with AM/FM radios.
• oldmancoyote 9y ago
  This is why selling access to people based on private personal data should be a crime with prison sentences for the responsible parties. Motivate the people in charge to find a solution. Don't tell them your solution.