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Re:Senators Blast Facebook for Concealing Instagram's Risks ... by hn_throwaway_99 on Thursday September 30, 2021 @07:05PM (#28712368)
I can think of no greater waste of human time or energy than these ridiculous Senate "hearings". It's just performance art, on all sides - they should just bring Yoko Ono in and call it a day.

The sad thing is that Senators usually call these hearings so they can make tough sound bites against naughty companies, but they usually just end up sounding like idiots (see the other comment about Sen. Blumenthal's "Finsta" nonsense).

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Re:Senators Blast Facebook for Concealing Instagram's Risks ... by supercanuck on Thursday September 30, 2021 @07:08PM (#28712392)
Senators are accountable to the people, Facebook is accountable to its shareholders.

It could be bozo the clown for all I care, but at least, someone is attempting to answer these questions on behalf of parents not technically capable enough to do something about this.

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Re:Senators Blast Facebook for Concealing Instagram's Risks ... by ianai on Thursday September 30, 2021 @07:43PM (#28712629)
FB is majority owned by Zuck.
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Re:Senators Blast Facebook for Concealing Instagram's Risks ... by cratermoon on Thursday September 30, 2021 @08:50PM (#28713158)
> FB is majority owned by Zuck.

Which just makes the statement "Facebook is accountable to Mark Zuckerberg".

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Re:Senators Blast Facebook for Concealing Instagram's Risks ... by effingwewt on Friday October 01, 2021 @04:28AM (#28715977)
I mean and they lie under oath without penalty, and if they ever settle on anything it's for peanuts compared to whay they rake in.

I think we've given them more than enough chances they need to be completely dissolved nothing of value will have been lost.

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Re:Senators Blast Facebook for Concealing Instagram's Risks ... by conspiracist on Thursday September 30, 2021 @07:08PM (#28712391)
It’s a great case of controlled opposition because so many people - HN included - think it’s serious.

This (and other prominent) companies are put in power by these people. It’s embarrassing that a community like HN is blind to this.

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