He must not be familiar with Jack Ma
A US senator believes that creating a global company is only possible in the US. I wonder how you end up with supposedly educated people -- the representatives of a nation -- holding this kind of insane worldviewpic.twitter.com/DeEKynF7F5
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I was just going to say Alibaba
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Sounds like Sullivan is prompting Zuckerberg to say something complimentary about the U. S to "help him out."
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I don't take Sullivan literally. He's a politician using persuasion. "Only in America" is directionally accurate acknowledging our fertile ground for Facebook to grow.
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Um, I'm pretty sure you can do the same thing in Canada. Just off the top of my head, there's BlackBerry (formerly RIM). In fact, didn't the POTUS and the rest of the US government use BlackBerries for a while?
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I especially liked the part where the senator told him what the answer to this question was. If he can do that then why did they even need Zuckerberg to be there?
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I wish that people (incl. senators) knew about rights that only Americans had. It is true that people can become from nobodys to tech superstars in any country, but it is ONLY IN THE USA that the tech companies are safe from liability from content posted by 3rd parties.
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This is thanks to the Communications Decency Act. CDA is what makes Free Speech possible on the www in the US. So the tech companies enjoy the protections afforded to them by US laws, and how do they pay Americans back? By censoring opinions they don't like and lying about it.
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To be fair
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Whats the French equivallent of Facebook? If none, whats the European one? Oh, once again none.
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Ok, maybe the French merely had already invented a national electronic information service before the FB founder was even born (look up Minitel), but I think inventing the World Wide Web (and not patenting it) is a fair riposte on the European claim front.
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