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by Fortinbras » Fri Apr 13, 2018 9:00 pm
I have to admit that I am sort of baffled about this fuss and I feel some sympathy for Zuckerberg.
Zuckerberg devised a social media system whereby people could reveal a great deal of their personal data and sentiments to others, including strangers.
People joined up and, entirely voluntarily and of their own volition, submitted personal details about themselves to the Facebook system, even though most of them had no notion of the mechanics of the Facebook system.
Cambridge figured out a way to mine that data that people had given up to Facebook.
Now Congressmen who have even less of a grasp about Facebook and internet social media are roasting Zuckerberg for doing what people expected and wanted him to do for them, what made him the hero of a recent movie, and so forth. These are the same Congressmen who have been totally inert about the news that Russia may be able to manipulate by remote control the US power grid.
Somehow Steven Bannon, who founded Cambridge Analytica, is not on the hot seat. It's like the banker being punished for being robbed but the bank robber, clearly identifiable, gets off scot-free.