https://twitter.com/morroweric/status/1443628623576109065
> Sen. Blumenthal asks Facebook "Will you commit to ending Finsta?"
> Facebook's safety chief has to explain that Finsta is slang for a fake account.
Sigh.
> Sen. Blumenthal asks Facebook "Will you commit to ending Finsta?"
> Facebook's safety chief has to explain that Finsta is slang for a fake account.
Sigh.
All else being equal people vote for candidates like them and older people turn out to vote at a much higher rate than young people. If you want you representatives to actually understand the world they are tasked with leading or want them to at least have consider how their decisions will personally affect them a decade in the future, you need to vote and convince your peers to vote. It is especially important to vote in primaries due to the US's two party system.
These Senate hearings are not jovial chats among friends. They are in the same ballpark as depositions, or interviews with law enforcement officiers. You are not there to make the opposition’s work easier. (Assuming you with counsels decided that the best option for you/your company is to appear.) You have to be curteous, and truthfull. But you absolutelly should not go into “guessing what the question might be”.
When he asks “Will you commit ending finsta?”
I would answer “At facebook we have no feature or setting named finsta. We cannot commit to end what we don’t offer.” And let him explain what he thinks finsta means to him.
In casual conversations we often try to answer the question we think we should have been asked. This is not such an occasion.
Hearings were originally intended to be fact finding sessions. During an era in which 'Newspapers' were an experimental new technology, it was still a good idea to get all the lawmakers into a room and bring in witnesses to present different sides of an issue.
And that might have been the case in the 19th Century, but in the post-war administrative state, Senators do not actually hold hearings to gather information as they have teams of full time aides that do that for them with modern technologies like the internet and the telephone that have obviated the need for hearings.
In the modern world, hearings are an opportunity to give speeches in front of cameras, to ask questions that embarrass your enemies and make your allies look good. Therefore Facebook is correctly using the hearings in their modern form, by trying to make the questioners look bad by pointing out how out of touch they are.
One needs to understand the concept of "Finsta" before they can ask that the concept be prevented.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-rep-greg-steube-asks-googl...
> Pichai attempted to explain individual email account settings to Steube, prompting the congressman to interject when the Google chief said the “primary tab” is for friends and family. “Well, it was my father who is not receiving now my campaign emails. So clearly that familial thing you’re talking about didn’t apply to my emails,” Steube exclaimed, conflating his personal emails with his political campaign’s.
Either the spam algorithm is rightly (by design intent) filtering because the campaign emails fit certain heuristics of spammy email. Or perhaps a skunkworks style rogue group within Google is meddling. (To be clear, I’m not suggesting this is happening, and personally believe it’s improbable – but one must consider that it’s possible.)
Spam's where quite a few of them belong.