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Before you believe anything the press writes about the hearings, go watch the question and answer portions of the hearings themselves. The Intercept tries to pa

Before you believe anything the press writes about the hearings, go watch the question and answer portions of the hearings themselves. The Intercept tries to paint the senators as having piercing questions that Zuckerberg failed to answer. That is not at all the case. With a few exceptions, such as Orin Hatch, the questions were either bizarre misunderstandings of the basics or verged into word salad.

908087 9y ago
Actually, the tone of the article wasn't that senators asked "piercing questions that Zuckerberg failed to answer", but that they were asking "basic questions that he failed to answer despite the answers being clearly available on his company's website".
- dsacco 9y ago
  To be fair to the parent commenter's point, I don't think your restatement of the article's characterization is any more accurate with respect to the hearing itself. There were basic questions he failed to answer, complex questions he did answer, and various questions were not well-founded enough for him to give a coherent answer.
  - _jal 9y ago
    ...And various perfectly well-formed questions he clearly did not want to answer, and dodged. His answer about logged-out tracking cookies is the most glaring example from the article, but the most serious one he dissembled over was the questioning from Harris.
    - dsacco 9y ago
      That's also true.
  - 908087 9y ago
    I wasn't commenting on the hearing, though. I was commenting on the way the parent post attempted to portray the article linked in this thread. That said, I watched the both hearings in full and I can't recall a single complex, non-softball question being answered. Unless, of course, you consider "Senator, this is a very important question" followed by some time wasting non-answer material an "answer".
speby 9y ago
Agree. There were also numerous opinion questions that involved "Mr. Zuckerberg .... blah blah ... what are you views on XYZ?" I mean that's not exactly piercing Q&A.
tfuop 9y ago
Suckerborg is under the protection of the illluminåțį ....when will.yall wake up to tis

908087 9y ago

Actually, the tone of the article wasn't that senators asked "piercing questions that Zuckerberg failed to answer", but that they were asking "basic questions that he failed to answer despite the answers being clearly available on his company's website".

dsacco 9y ago
To be fair to the parent commenter's point, I don't think your restatement of the article's characterization is any more accurate with respect to the hearing itself. There were basic questions he failed to answer, complex questions he did answer, and various questions were not well-founded enough for him to give a coherent answer.
- _jal 9y ago
  ...And various perfectly well-formed questions he clearly did not want to answer, and dodged. His answer about logged-out tracking cookies is the most glaring example from the article, but the most serious one he dissembled over was the questioning from Harris.
  - dsacco 9y ago
    That's also true.
- 908087 9y ago
  I wasn't commenting on the hearing, though. I was commenting on the way the parent post attempted to portray the article linked in this thread. That said, I watched the both hearings in full and I can't recall a single complex, non-softball question being answered. Unless, of course, you consider "Senator, this is a very important question" followed by some time wasting non-answer material an "answer".

speby 9y ago

Agree. There were also numerous opinion questions that involved "Mr. Zuckerberg .... blah blah ... what are you views on XYZ?" I mean that's not exactly piercing Q&A.

tfuop 9y ago

Suckerborg is under the protection of the illluminåțį ....when will.yall wake up to tis