The questioning by the EU politicians was far far more intelligible than the ones by US senators.In fact, this interpretation is far more accurate on how the US senate actually performed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zCDvOsdL9Q&t=5s Mark did an amazing job putting up with the US Senate, but he seemed to fall apart at some of the questions from the EU politicians… and there was a lot more "non answer answers" from him (especially around "shadow profiles"). The reason facebook probably doesn't need to be broken up is probably because it's only got a small amount of time left as the dominant platform in it's current iteration… many kids that is less than 16 or so don't even seem to use or want to use facebook; they call it "the old people's social network" in schools. We talk about old companies (like mining companies, banks, etc) having to transform / reinvent themselves to stay relevant, that is even more true of pure digital tech companies… their cycle for becoming outdated is becoming faster and i suspect is now less than 10 years (unless they keep reinventing themselves much faster than that). The EU with GDPR is focusing on the core of the problem, which is around privacy (and by extension, central data collection)… the US in that regard is lightyears behind.
On Wed, May 23, 2018 5:30 AM, Shane Greenup [email protected] wrote: "No wonder Europe is in such a mess" >implying the USA isn't in a worse mess and the USA questioning wasn't just as incompetent. Technology moves too fast for politics. Politics is dead in the water until we figure out how to update it to match the rate of progress in technology. I suspect we'll see the singularity before we figure that out though. That or annihilation at the hands of an out of control technology. Either way, the problem kind of takes care of itself. On 22 May 2018 at 18:56, Dean Collins <[email protected]> wrote: I'm @NowWatching the European question of Zuckerberg, im assuming most Australians wont have watched in live as it was at 2am in the morning but wondering what Australians are thinking about these claims by the EU on how Facebook is wrong and people in Europe don’t want to use it apart from lol...he doesn't get paid enough. The smartass asking 6 questions without pausing for answers/the questions to be written down with final part 6 saying Facebook should be broken up because he wants to see a European competitor..... My response would be GAGF. I'm never been pro Facebook.....but these questions are a witch hunt. No wonder Europe is in such a mess. Eg the guy who was late to the start of the meeting because of the strikes in France but now asking for $198 compensation for every facebook users data. Or the Irish politician wants Facebook to prevent fake accounts (idiot Irish kid who posted embarrasing sex photo and killed himself).....but the other EU politicians want to ban Facebook from building shadow accounts. (Which are used to prevent fake account generation). This is why EU is screwed up they can't agree on what they want. Ugh this questioning format is ridiculous but well done by Mark in not getting frustrated with their incompetence. Thoughts? Cheers Dean -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- ------------------------------------ http://rbutr.com http://ShaneGreenup.com -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
