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CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos,Sundar Pichai Testify Before House

38 points by blhack 6y ago

sschueller 6y ago
The delays in the video feeds and bad quality is bit ironic...
- gipp 6y ago
  It's over WebEx I believe. So a bit less ironic.
mrkramer 6y ago
Was Mark Zuckerberg already on? I'm most excited what he has to say. Edit: This is hilarious, clueless congressman don't know what platform he is talking about. Trump Jr. was banned on Twitter and he asks Zuckerberg why he banned him.
- novia 6y ago
  > Was Mark Zuckerberg already on? All of them are on at once, and the congresspeople can choose who to target with questions. It's wild.
Falloodude 6y ago
“We do not want to become the arbiters of truth. That would be a bad position to be in.” -Zuck
- sg47 6y ago
  Wikipedia too.
raiyu 6y ago
I don't understand why everyone gets so excited of this dog and pony show. The executives show up before congress, they get grilled with a bunch of questions, but what is the real change that comes out of this process? I could certainly be very wrong, but this just seems like a circus act. Everyone is going to express their outrage but will there be an real change? Will Apple have its 30% cut of app-store sales changed? Will google stop showing google results at the top? Will google be forced to actually not show ads on trademarked brands for their competitors?
- baybal2 6y ago
  > I don't understand why everyone gets so excited of this dog and pony show. Because it is very entertaining.
  - raiyu 6y ago
    Ahh !! ok. I just wanted to make sure that it was purely for entertainment and I wasn't missing something about the bigger picture here. =]
  - Bombthecat 6y ago
    Much like trump
  - ideals 6y ago
    This all I've been able to take from it. The bizarro world going on between D's and R's alternating questions about antitrust and voting conspiracies is pretty funny and seeing CEOs who are surrounded by hand picked yes men getting squirmy at times trying to dodge combative questions, makes for entertaining episode of mid-day Maury Congress Edition but that's about it.
- jb775 6y ago
  Was thinking the same thing, not sure what actually gets done besides questions being asked. They even point out times these CEOs or higher up execs answered questions like these in the past that ended up not being truthful answers...but I guess there was nothing done then either.
- grumio 6y ago
  The purpose is to demonize big tech. It's the new "tough on crime." Of course there's a lot to criticize, but if criticizing and making change were the real goals, the hearing would look very different. They might have done more research and make specific demands. edit/P.S.: I don't mean to sound sorry for big tech. They're not some poor unsuspecting victims. I'm just worried that they'll try to use this hearing, especially the vague "anti-conservative bias" questions, in order to trick people into supporting EARN IT.
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grumio 6y ago
This act seems like it's 1% about holding big tech accountable or whatever, and 99% about stoking anti-big-tech rhetoric that the authoritarians in congress will try to harness into support for EARN IT and other surveillance bills. Tech giants aren't angels, and ideally should reduce some of their anti-competition practices, but I don't think that's what this is really about.
Stierlitz 6y ago
Is there an edited version with the best bits? I really don't want to have to wade through five hours and twenty minutes of it. What video conferncing solution did they use. Not Zoom, cause the Chinese could be bugging it. Lastly, who is this dude? https://i.ibb.co/BZN1qZr/white-black.png https://i.ibb.co/BZN1qZr/white-black.png

38 points by blhack 6y ago

sschueller 6y ago

The delays in the video feeds and bad quality is bit ironic...

gipp 6y ago
It's over WebEx I believe. So a bit less ironic.

mrkramer 6y ago

Was Mark Zuckerberg already on? I'm most excited what he has to say. Edit: This is hilarious, clueless congressman don't know what platform he is talking about. Trump Jr. was banned on Twitter and he asks Zuckerberg why he banned him.

novia 6y ago
> Was Mark Zuckerberg already on? All of them are on at once, and the congresspeople can choose who to target with questions. It's wild.

Falloodude 6y ago

“We do not want to become the arbiters of truth. That would be a bad position to be in.” -Zuck

sg47 6y ago
Wikipedia too.

raiyu 6y ago

I don't understand why everyone gets so excited of this dog and pony show. The executives show up before congress, they get grilled with a bunch of questions, but what is the real change that comes out of this process? I could certainly be very wrong, but this just seems like a circus act. Everyone is going to express their outrage but will there be an real change? Will Apple have its 30% cut of app-store sales changed? Will google stop showing google results at the top? Will google be forced to actually not show ads on trademarked brands for their competitors?

baybal2 6y ago
> I don't understand why everyone gets so excited of this dog and pony show. Because it is very entertaining.
- raiyu 6y ago
  Ahh !! ok. I just wanted to make sure that it was purely for entertainment and I wasn't missing something about the bigger picture here. =]
- Bombthecat 6y ago
  Much like trump
- ideals 6y ago
  This all I've been able to take from it. The bizarro world going on between D's and R's alternating questions about antitrust and voting conspiracies is pretty funny and seeing CEOs who are surrounded by hand picked yes men getting squirmy at times trying to dodge combative questions, makes for entertaining episode of mid-day Maury Congress Edition but that's about it.
jb775 6y ago
Was thinking the same thing, not sure what actually gets done besides questions being asked. They even point out times these CEOs or higher up execs answered questions like these in the past that ended up not being truthful answers...but I guess there was nothing done then either.
grumio 6y ago
The purpose is to demonize big tech. It's the new "tough on crime." Of course there's a lot to criticize, but if criticizing and making change were the real goals, the hearing would look very different. They might have done more research and make specific demands. edit/P.S.: I don't mean to sound sorry for big tech. They're not some poor unsuspecting victims. I'm just worried that they'll try to use this hearing, especially the vague "anti-conservative bias" questions, in order to trick people into supporting EARN IT.
6y ago

grumio 6y ago

This act seems like it's 1% about holding big tech accountable or whatever, and 99% about stoking anti-big-tech rhetoric that the authoritarians in congress will try to harness into support for EARN IT and other surveillance bills. Tech giants aren't angels, and ideally should reduce some of their anti-competition practices, but I don't think that's what this is really about.

Stierlitz 6y ago

Is there an edited version with the best bits? I really don't want to have to wade through five hours and twenty minutes of it. What video conferncing solution did they use. Not Zoom, cause the Chinese could be bugging it. Lastly, who is this dude? https://i.ibb.co/BZN1qZr/white-black.png https://i.ibb.co/BZN1qZr/white-black.png