These are the most confusing questions Congress asked Zuckerberg
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as evidence that legislators are tech illiterate when HN debates regulation.
What it is
CNN Business compiles confusing and uninformed questions US lawmakers asked Mark Zuckerberg during his 2018 Congressional testimony about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2018 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Critical _bxg1 · 2019-04 · on “Please Don't Learn to Code (2012)”
"can you explain to me how Michael Bloomberg would be better at his day to day job of leading the largest city in the USA if he woke up one morning as a crack Java coder?" Politicians especially could benefit from having a clearer idea of how computers work, for everything from patent law, to internet regulation, to encryption, to AI ethics. These topics are only increasing in their relevance to geopolitics, and most leaders are comically ignorant of them. Exhibit A: [this video] Of course this isn't limited to those in politics; it applies to every decision-maker in society, from business executives to individual voters. Obviously all of these people aren't expected to write code in their daily
Critical bergstromm466 · 2020-12 · on “Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Strengthening iOS Privacy”
I can’t help but think about the long game here. What complex PR strategies could potentially be employed here by Apple and Facebook together? I wonder if this ‘fight’ represents some sort of controlled opposition by Silicon Valley to win favorable regulation for the tech industry as a whole. By showing fake hostility/rivalry between Apple and Facebook, they can carefully control the overall narrative, and although this story focuses on a negative issue (which, let's be real, is not that much worse than the average person having already soured on Facebook), it could lead to premature, pro-corporate laws, rapidly lobbied for, and passed, through mostly tech illiterate senators (just look at a
Critical bergstromm466 · 2020-12 · on “Facebook: Free as in Bullshit”
I wrote this yesterday (and slightly edited/updated it today): I can’t help but think about the long game here. Are there complex PR strategies that could potentially be employed here by Apple and Facebook together? I wonder if this ‘fight’ represents some sort of controlled opposition by a few Silicon Valley tech giants to win favorable regulation for the tech industry as a whole: by showing a fake rivalry Apple and Facebook (and others) can carefully control the overall narrative, and although this story focuses on a negative issue (which, let's be real, is not much worse than the average person having already soured on Facebook anyway), it could lead to incomplete, premature, pro-corporat