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"Nerds who just want to have some fun... "
... for example: (be complicit in) destroy(ing) the democratic process.
I fully agree that some questions where pathetic. At the same time, what if only 2% procent of the questions get 80% coverage from the media thereby distorting our view of the hearing. I haven't watched it in full to know. For example, I hear that the second hearing was much much better but somehow you don't hear as much about it. I guess evasive answers from Zucc are more boring to watch and difficult to turn into a meme.
Having said that I do think that Zucc should've been questioned by knowledgeable people and/or critical thinkers and/or privacy activists.
Finally, nerds have fun by building a game or a kernel or launching rockets in space. Perverts have fun by spying on people. -
I see what you saying and I can't say you guys are wrong.
@freakko But I think your view on what is fun for a nerd is a bit subjective. For myself, I'd have more fun in building a social network, alone for the fact there is none and I'll get a monopoly in that, than writing a kernel patch. I mean mankind didn't survive until now because we did stuff out of generosity.
I see your point and it's completely valid. Back in the days you heard sick stuff from Zuckerberg, being all like "these dumb fucks give me their data", but the current problem isn't Facebook abusing data, it's dumb fucks giving data to third parties on Facebook while being all like "they won't be gettin' ma data" on the other hand. It's all right as long as they know which Minion they are.(;
And the coverage was 5 hours, twice. I don't think thats 2% of it.^^ -
@curlyDev I didn't say Zuckerberg is the holy one who did everything right.
But would you say yes to "Do you gather data of kids?" without the ability to explain why you do so and what kind of data it is and how it is used (may it be the real case or not, these days we're anti-everything)? aka "YES OR NO MR. ZUCKERBERG!"
Imagine googling marijuana and getting swatted because doing so. And the only question when it comes to your defense is "Did you search for marijuana?".^^
And I know this analogy lacks a bit of accuracy, but I hope you get my point.
Don't we all love a sophisticated chat bot?
This is just sad
Life when you didn't know about browsers developer tools
So I know most of you got some kind of hate for Facebook and Zuckerberg (aka Z U C C) now, but ffs, watching some of the highlights of this congress-thing that went on makes me more or less feel sympathy for him and his idea, even tho I know he wants to achieve exactly this.
Some of the questions asked can suck a big fucken data-dick. "How many Facebook Like-Buttons are there on Non-Facebook pages?", "How many data-categories do you gather?", "How do you sustain a business model and stay free?" - DUDE WHAT IN HEAVENS NAME?? And they ask that shit so serious and so "now-i'm-going-to-bust-you"-esk, but actually the question is just plain stupid and shows how the questioning side has no clue about the shit.
My point of view is that people decided to have an online life and have to take what it does. Having a smartphone with a Facebook service installed (owning an account or not) is enough to track your location, stored under your IMEI or some shit like that. They may not even go that far but that's just my opinion.
If you are online everything can see you and use you that way. Borders are a fictious thing. A dude in Czechia can easily shoot you when you're on the German side of the border between those two countries. And still we gave up on walls...:p
Welcome to a world which is ruled by dumbass people where nerds who just want to have some fun need to defend themselves because the people up there don't know a single shit.
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