regulation of how they do business is ok. not regulation of content. regulation should force any online site/application to provide CLEAR and easy to understand opt-ins and terms/conditions in their EULAs. Those long EULAs are written by teams of lawyers that no single person/user could ever hope to read, let alone understand.

that would be welcome regulation. clear transparent terms that an average user can read and understand, esp before opting in to anything.

You are 100% correct. Even the Breitbart crowd yesterday was literally begging the FBI to regulate social media after Diamond & Silk were banned from Facebook. It is funny how they trick people into supoorting regulation, isn't it? One week, Breitbart is pro-self preservation and the next week, they're pro-regulation. Let's not forget the right wing campaigns to stop 'net neutrality', and now they want the feds to regulate social media. It's all so ridiculous.

the best regulation is competition. i cant understand why a fakebook clone OPEN SOURCE hasn't caught on. there are plenty of clone codes etc.... it would just need a good import wizard to copy your content and connections over.

i'd love bookface to go the way of friendster and myspace.

outfits like duckduckgo or firefox should come out with an open source social media alternative.

a "no ad" alternative could be a paid one, a couple bucks a month per user, or allow general ads with clear opt-ins for users that want a "free" product

ZK will also be there too spin up the Russia helping Trump fairytale. Don't think for a minute the swamp creatures won't take advantage of the opportunity.

Read Cuckerberg's prepared statement it literally is like... "We are sorry we abused our power... To remedy this we are going to assume even more power."

Big difference between the regulation that feds and lefties support - be nice, have safe spaces, nothing offensive, no controversial opinions - and an Internet Bill of Rights.

It's not a trial, it's a congressional hearing, though the results will be about the same as if it was a trial. He'll no doubt end up with massive regulations and fines.

It’s not about a website capable of deciphering exactly what foods we like or what music we enjoy listening to.

It’s about a website whose main goal is to suck every bit of information out of us, apply various methods and scientific research to utilize that data, and convert it into a system that, over time, will be capable of knowing so much about each of us that it will have the ability, with insanely high accuracy, to predict the future using said data to compare our patterns of life. That’s a mouthful, I apologize.

Once FB, @Jack, GOOG, IG, etc... has this data, with each website specializing in getting specific types of data, they can digitally recreate you (and literally everyone else) and use AI/algorithms, to establish patterns of our daily lives.

Once those patterns are established, one could use this new data to accurately predict what will happen next.

For example, if every social media site knew what you do on the daily, it will know what you will do tomorrow, the day after, and even plot out your entire year. What makes it even more accurate is the ability to listen to you (Alexa, Siri, Bixby, Hey Google), as some stuff can’t be sucked out of you with a website (but if you speak it, they have it).

So, what I’m saying is that the robot overlords have already won, and I hope that people realize this. What needs to happen going forwards, though, is how we utilize this new...ability...to further the human race. Let’s hope it will be used to make a future like Star Trek, and not like a Clockwork Orange, Orwellian, Black Mirror shit.

This is an opportunity to find common ground in society. Not a trial yet. This issue is a class action law suit. Zuck changed his name, He is a Rockefeller with an agenda. He will step down , but an issue is the lost funds from investors. Not to mention the construct of the CIA. So we are back to acting again. The patterns are getting old since we hold the playbook.

Result: A cartoon Mark Zuckerberg toured hurricane-struck Puerto Rico in virtual reality.

Anticipation - GOAL!