I don't think anyone's getting fooled here. These sessions get fed directly back into the legislative process and, unlike a court of law, Zuckerberg's intransig

I don't think anyone's getting fooled here. These sessions get fed directly back into the legislative process and, unlike a court of law, Zuckerberg's intransigence is going to be treated as tacit admission of guilt and an indictment of the entire social media industry. Now the legislative sausage has to get made. Social media's lobbyists are going to have a rough time of it, and the telecom industry, who has been nipping at their heels for a decade, are going to lay it on thick, trying to gut them so their data becomes more valuable to advertisers. Expect any law that gets passed to marginally affect privacy, and maximally affect a few pocketbooks.