YouTube, Twitter or Reddit next to be on the D.C. hot seat says cyber security expert

0. phoneArena posted on 14 Apr 2018, 12:55

Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent Tuesday and Wednesday getting grilled by the Senate and the House, respectively. And if there is one thing that we can take away from the media circus, it's this: Congress hasn't a clue about how technology works. Granted, not everyone throwing questions at Zuckerberg was over 70, but we did hear one lawmaker sound incredulous when Zuckerberg responded to an inquiry by confirming that Facebook is free...

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posted on 14 Apr 2018, 13:04 1

1. Babadook (Posts: 226; Member since: 24 May 2016)

> "says that like Facebook, Google is guilty of data mining and profiling" ---- It's illegal and bad if they do it, but my US government can do it and it's totally okay. Mmmk makes sense.

posted on 14 Apr 2018, 13:08 5

2. gamehead (Posts: 617; Member since: 04 Jul 2017)

Gov pretending it cares about privacy

posted on 14 Apr 2018, 18:09 4

5. lyndon420 (Posts: 5361; Member since: 11 Jul 2012)

The NSA won't be expected to sit and explain themselves before Congress. What a joke.

posted on 15 Apr 2018, 01:26

7. epdm2be (Posts: 729; Member since: 20 Apr 2012)

The NSA probably didn't get a seat at Cambridge Analytica. It's MI5/MI6-only territory :-/

posted on 15 Apr 2018, 21:56

14. 47AlphaTango (Posts: 595; Member since: 27 Sep 2015)

Oh? If there was a plan of attack on US soil. Does privacy still counts after that?

posted on 17 Apr 2018, 12:27

17. jacky899 (Posts: 244; Member since: 16 May 2017)

Thats a bunch of crap. If you know history, all the wars the US were involved in the last few hundreds years, except with Japan, were fought in foreign soil where the US is the invader and even japans attack on pearl harbor was a retalitory response forced by the US because the war was necessary for the US and presidency for many reasons. Even if you say the NSA has the right reasons to spy on its own citizens, please explain why the heck is the NSA justified to spy on all foreign governments and citizens when the US are always the one attacking.

posted on 14 Apr 2018, 13:42

3. matistight (Posts: 709; Member since: 13 May 2009)

"So I still don't understand how the Facebook works, but I think I understand how you, the youtube, makes money but I'd like to know what you say. The YouTube, how do you make money? And what is an Ad??? Facebook talked about running them but what are they? Cause you touch an Ad? Can you eat and Ad? Also how does the internet work?"

Oh, I can't wait

posted on 14 Apr 2018, 17:42

4. gdawilson (Posts: 189; Member since: 21 Jul 2014)

You would have thought Mark would have been grilled by congress but they tossed him lowballs instead. The questions they asked him were so stupid.

posted on 15 Apr 2018, 01:22

6. epdm2be (Posts: 729; Member since: 20 Apr 2012)

Not to mention that the real perpetrator which caused this debacle is totally absent. Why wasn't the board/ceo of Cambridge Analytica interviewed or the Cambridge professor (alexandr kogan) that actually leaked/gave that data?

posted on 15 Apr 2018, 03:26

8. mootu (Posts: 503; Member since: 16 Mar 2017)

Maybe because they can't force UK residents to appear before congress.

posted on 15 Apr 2018, 05:43

9. theot14430 (Posts: 160; Member since: 24 Feb 2017)

Grill them all!

posted on 15 Apr 2018, 11:10

10. JimmieCrakCorn (Posts: 51; Member since: 20 Nov 2017)

What's the deal with little Zucky's ridiculously ugly mega-forehead haircut? Couldn't he pay his barber an extra $5 to leave in some bangs? And why does he talk with that annoying nasally Bill Gates voice? I guess the saying "All dorks talk alike" is true.

posted on 15 Apr 2018, 15:19

13. janis (Posts: 389; Member since: 10 Mar 2014)

why so much hate on one of the smartest man on this planet? is that just a way to show how your IQ is low?

posted on 16 Apr 2018, 06:12

15. JimmieCrakCorn (Posts: 51; Member since: 20 Nov 2017)

Don't flatter yourself. The loogie i hock in your face has a higher IQ than you, sht for brains!

posted on 15 Apr 2018, 13:59

11. Botnet64 (Posts: 7; Member since: 09 Apr 2018)

Why they making that chiet-show? Folks have to understand, that there is now such thing as free service.

posted on 15 Apr 2018, 15:17

12. janis (Posts: 389; Member since: 10 Mar 2014)

i am FB and instagram user, i remember when i used to classify all ads as spam, but it is not possible there are new ones every day, that is good reason for me to think about deleting both accounts. FB makes money of information they are gathering about users, and that information is very very useful for lots of companies etc. Either way i remember when i signed up in FB it was fun, lots of pictures etc, now its lots of ads and all sh** just being shared nothing very interesting and fun.

posted on 17 Apr 2018, 11:14

16. firebird820 (Posts: 153; Member since: 01 Jan 2017)

Please Lord let YouTube be put in their place and finally have some consequences for what they've done.I had a YouTube video with over 14 million views and was earning over $1000 a month from it, until YouTube demonetized it and censored it from everyone. I've only gotten about 100k views in the past two months, and I'm not making any money off of it anymore. You want to know what the video was? Two animals mating. And apparently that was "inappropriate for advertisers....." Yeah, OK Google.