tech hearing begins and Mark Zuckerberg is back, sitting in a much nicer dressed room today bonus points for plant and lamppic.twitter.com/snrSGEVXp3
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every tech hearing is Reps asking questions with "can you answer yes or no" and witnesses refusing to answer yes or no, for like four hours
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yea my feeling is ostensibly you brought these people in to learn, so let them talk or wtf are we even doing here
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it's probably an ineffective format entirely since it's largely done for optics and to be fair to witnesses it can be very difficult to distill complex issues down to yes or no (though some answers are certainly clear dodges)
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I liked Ben Thompson’s take: “Have you stopped beating your wife, yes or no?”
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You don't learn in public hearings, you perform political theater.
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