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This is textbook ad hominem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem > attacks the character, motive, or some other
by unsui 5y ago
This is textbook ad hominem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
> attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself
Question her motives or qualifications, rather than the claims themselves.
- shmatt 5y agoNo. I want to see c-level, senior vp's, and around them start answering questions. Now that its in congress, subpoenas are pretty easy
- elliekelly 5y agoLucky for Zuck he’s spent the last decade cultivating lots of relationships in DC...
- BitwiseFool 5y agoTo me at least, something feels very off about this whole situation. Out of the blue some larger-than-life person comes out of the woodwork and is lauded with attention while the big news outlets make this massive push against Facebook, all the while congress is holding hearings and a massive outage happens at Facebook right after the New York Times published an article titled "Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew." Edit: She is remarkably calm, well-spoken, knowledgeable, and articulate for someone testifying before the Senate for the very first time - all while being broadcast around the globe, live on television. Perhaps she's simply a natural, but I sense she received some coaching and preparation beforehand. Combine all of this with politicians chomping at the bit to fight online 'misinformation' and I become very skeptical. It certainly could all just be a perfect storm and Mark Z. has some terrible luck. But again, my intuition is telling me there is something coordinated going on here.