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Facebook at harvard, you know, i only had one option for an isp to use. if i had to pay extra in order to make it so that my app. could potentially be seen or used by other people, then we probably wouldn't be here today. >> well, we're talking about privacy concerns. and, let me just say we will have to follow up on this, but i think you and i agree this is going to be one of the major items of debate if we have to go forward and do this from a governmental standpoint. let me just move on to another couple of items. is it true that as was recently publicized that facebook collects the call an...

Spell out all the detail, then you are probably going to reduce the percent of people who read it and make it accessible to them. so, one of the things that we have struggled with over time is to make something that is as simple as possible to supreme can understand it as well as giving them control of inline in the product in the context of when they are trying to actually use them. taking into account that we don't expect that most people want l. want to go through and read a full legal document. >> senator nelson. >> thank you, mr. chairman. yesterday when we talked, i gave the relatively h...

Well as dislarms that you are going to take early action as soon as june i heard before this election so people can view these ads including issue ads; is that correct? >> that is correct, senator. and i just want to take a moment before i go into this in more detail to thank you for your leadership on this. this, i think is an important area for the whole industry to move on. the two specific things that we're doing are one is around transparency. so, now you are going to be able to go and click on any advertiser or any page on facebook and see all of the ads that they are running. so that ac...

Sharing? >> senator, this is an important question. i would differentiate between isps, which i consider to be the pipes of the internet and the platforms, like facebook or google or twitter, youtube, that are the apps or platforms on top of that. i think in general, the expectations that people have of the pipes are somewhat different from the platforms. so there might be areas where there needs to be more regulation in one and less in the other. i think there are going to be other places where there needs to be more regulation of the other type. specifically though, on the pipes, one of the ...

Elections, we were able to proactively remove tens of how far to sands of accounts that before they could contribute significant harm and the nature of these attacks though is that, you know, there are people in russia whose job it is to try to exploit our system and other internet systems and other systems as well. this is an arms race. they are going to keep on getting better at this. we need to keep on investing in getting better at this, too. one of the things i mentioned before we will have more than 20,000 people by the end of this year working on security and content review across the c...