senator, that s correct. okay. thank you. my time has expired and i appreciate the courtesy of the chair for the extra seconds. thank you, mr. zuckerberg. senator lee? thank you, mr. chairman. mr. zuckerberg, i wanted to follow up on a statement that you made shortly before the break just a few minutes ago. you said that there are some categories of speech. some types of content that facebook would never want to have any part of. and takes active steps to avoid disseminating, including hate speech, nudity, racist speech, i assume you also meant terrorist acts, threats of physical violence. things like that. beyond that, would you agree that facebook ought not be putting its thumb on the scale with regard to the content of speech assuming it fits that of one of those categories that s prohibited? senator, yes, there are generally two categories of content that we re very worried about. one are things that could cause real world harm. so, terrorism, certainly
information fiduciary enshrined in statute. senator it s certainly an interesting idea. and jack is very thoughtful in this space so i do think it deserves consideration. thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. thank you mr. zuckerberg for being here today. i appreciate your testimony. the full scope of facebook users activity can print very personal picture, i think. and additionally you have those two billion users that are out there every month. and so we all know that s larger than the population of most countries. how many data categories do you store, does facebook store? on the categories that you collect? senator, can you clarify what you mean by data categories? there are some past reports that have been out there that indicate that facebook collects about 96
republicans are asking some pointed questions of mr. zuckerberg. most of us understand that whether you re using facebook or google or some other online services, we are trading certain information about ourselves for free low cost services. but, for this model to persist, both sides of the bargain need to know the stakes that are involved. after this five-minute break it may go into the evening as there are a number of senators who want to ask questions of mark zuckerberg. this is day one of two days of hearings here on capitol hill. neil? neil: thank you very, very much. again, they are going to resume very shortly. i have got howard cirttle here of course, media madness, media buzz lucky to have him here in the studio. hard to gauge how these things go. obviously open season on him on both sides. neil, the headline here these esteemed senators have not laid a glove on mark
safe speed bumps put in that information does not does not mistakenly fall into the wrong hands repeated. the devil will be in the details spelled out. many argue that the lot easier implemented than not. some in the industry fear that if mr. zuckerberg doesn t farewell in these the next day of hearings, that think coul they could be an to this same type of restriction government and otherwise that would not be greeted well, this is industry where the government here and pretty much everywhere has had a hands off policy letting these guys do their own thing. that could be changing. mike emanuel has been following it all on capitol hill. what is the read you are getting there, mike, in terms of how he is fairing and how he is answering some critics on both sides that he hasn t done enough? well, neil, from talking with some folks here, i have gotten a sense that they feel like zuckerberg is handling himself pretty well in terms of answering questions from both sides.
go ahead. the third point is around enabling communication. some of these cases that are very sensitive like face recognition, for example. there is a balance extremely important to strike here where you obtain special consent for sensitive features like face recognition, but don t but we still need to make it so american companies can innovate in those areas or else we are going to fall behind chinese competitors and others around the world who have different regimes for different new features like that. senator cantwell. thank you, mr. chairman. welcome, mr. zuckerberg. do you know who palinteer is. some people have referred to them as stafford analytical. do you agree. senator, i have not heard that. do you think palanteer