'Do You Want Kids To Use Your Platform More Or Less?': Jon Ossoff Grills Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg 

Then how are you here?

fun fact the internet wasnt invented for the puplic originally

The Internet has become a sewer.

@@i-will-continue-to-be-HIM neither was the GPS

Social media turned it into a curse. Before that people were a lot more normal. And I mean that by a huge margin. I mean take a look at how people were in shows back in 2013 and before, compared to shows right now. It's a reflection of us being shown to us. And just go outside and you'll begin to notice who's a victim of social media and who isn't. And it's all become this gate to project hate. Everyone's become the worst part of themselves.

Same could be said for cars

KIds are addicted

@@bobjones7233don’t know if you know this but kids aren’t on facebook lmao. probably on instagram or tiktok.

​@@bobjones7233 not even mad at Facebook not even mad at Mark. Parents have the ability to decide when they can get a phone what kind of parental locks is on that phone. That includes video game's absolutely not blaming anyone for parental laziness 😂😂

@@tph951 NO THEY DON'T, SCHOOLS ARE ALLOWING KIDS TO USE IT, EVEN HAVING, "DIGITAL DAYS" LIKE IN CALIFORNIA

@@opirathathey’re parents still have to sign permission genius

Many of them don't have parent(s) present or cognizant enough to give guidance.

Possibly an Age restriction on adult and any snake-filled content is helpful, on all platforms and from any nations into this nation Period. That keeps the financially motivated promotions and monopolies dead, as well as any indoctrination or harmful influences exposable to the influentially innocent Child, (Pre-Adults). The rated X platforms are not for the Child either. Now possibly it's known why (it was insisted to not eat from the fruit of knowledge)? Because we were exposed deceivingly to the knowledge of, the ways of the snake as well. But the temptation of the snake is shown to us by the Truth. By Abiding to the Truth, We all shall see the Truth as it Sheild us from the Snake. But shall never use us as Sheilds. God and Truth are One Because God is the Truth. Parents teach your Children well you have the fruit of Knowledge.

Age restrictions are useless as soon are kids realize they can enter a date of birth that puts them over the minimum that is required to have full access. Waste of time. Where the fucks are the parents? All of a sudden people who believe in "personal responsibility" and "parents rights" completely surrender and are nowhere to be seen except promoting bigger government control over social media companies. Where are the small government conservatives at who will say I'm wrong?

I agree!!

@@normadesmond9659 If that is the case, then the young child should not be permitted on any platform without adult supervision sitting next to them or disable the feature.

A car is dangerous for a child.

He is the king of dodging question, evertything to protect his interests . . damn i tought he was a father ...

What the senator is getting at is that meta’s products should be regulated by the government. So to admit that the country is dangerous as an analogy to meta’s products being dangerous would be unadvisable from Zuck’s defense team’s perspective. That premise would justify government oversight. “Oh the country is dangerous, that is why we regulate it with the police””oh the world is dangerous, that is why we have the largest military ever known to man”

this congress and committee are dangerous for USA. what should they do about it?

@@christidwell3951 it is dangerous, but it is very informative too. the fact that the senator failed to acknowledge that the benefit of free speech on social media is astonishing. Private sector are not obligated to make rules, nor should they be involved in making rules. It is so obvious that the legislation failed to do their job and try to find a scapegoat. Social media has been around for more than 20 years since ICQ and MSN. what have the legislation done?

Yeah, literally any good product wants their product to be the best and give the customer a good experience - therefore that inherently would make someone want to use it more - whether or not they deliberately want people to use their product non-stop or not. It's essentially impossible to make any product that would not inherently influence the customers indirectly to use it more unless it is an absolutely terrible product. I do not like Zuckerberg at all! I'm even a bit right leaning myself and I love the state of Georgia. But this Congressman really was just trying to attack Mark Zuckerberg without any logic or valid reason. He says "there is a studying proving that kids using social media for 3 hours a day is unhealthy!!" .......but the truth is that is a parenting problem, especially when every major smarth phone (apple & android) have parental controls and time limits and Facebook itself has a kids setting and time can be limited on it. When I was a child back in 2009, my dad set up parental controls for a time limit on the Xbox 360!!!!!! This was 15 YEARS AGO!!!!! We had this technology existing! Yet this Congressman makes an argument that COMPLETELY falls apart once you remember this technology or setting exists. Granted my dad would often let me go past the time limit when I was acting good and being active, but after a few years I grew out of it and didn't need a limit anymore. I do not see any reason why Facebook should be to blame for PARENTS failing to control their own kids! Especially when they have all these parental control settings to monitor and control what their kids do on smart devices. If this Congress really cares about kids and wasn't just trying to go after Facebook without reason (even though there actually is plenty of valid reasons to go after them, he just didn't use those reasons in his argument) then WHY doesn't he apply the same argument to fast food places? It is certainly unhealthy for children to eat fast food 3 times or more a week.......and we KNOW FOR A FACT that McDonald's wants kids to eat their products. Following the same flawed logic as the congressman, I'd argue fast food places are a bigger problem for kids health than Facebook, and it is OBVIOUS fast food places want kids to use their products more considering they put LITERAL TOYS 🧸🪀🧮 in the kids meals and constantly advertise these toys on TV, and design their mascots for children. Compared to Facebook, the Fast food places very deliberately & obviously target children to use their product more despite it being very well proven it is very unhealthy for children to eat fast food frequently. But either way it is a PARENTING PROBLEM. You can't blame companies for making a good product. Although I must say the fast food places putting toys in their meals and all that seems a bit wrong morally.

@@nicklibby3784Facebook, social media and tech companies absolutely have some of the burden for creating this environment. They literally designed the apps and phones to be dopaminergically addictive. That said, you're not wrong, the government has never had a handle on the private sector and isn't going to fix a problem in individual kids. The solution should come from companies being less predatory in their tactics to hijack our dopamine receptors, and parents learning how to teach their kids to self-regulate their technology consumption. Both are an issue. Especially if you think there's a moral implication for happy meals for kids. On a phone, every notification, every like on a post, any funny video, is a dopamine hit and honestly it works way faster and is more immediately harmful to kids than a happy meal in their junk food. Ossoff was trying to get at the valid and scientifically proven argument that I made about dopamine, but his initial question was in fact stupidly worded. All companies' obligation is to increase the amount of consumers of their goods or services. It's our job to learn how to only engage in that when needed or wanted and how to not fall prey to the sneaky tactics they use to take advantage of our consumption.

Evidently it wasn't a stupid question because Zuckerberg had all kinds of problems trying to answer it. It's a strategic question that needs to be asked because you need to hear his answer. I would suspect you're not a parent. Because I Don't know a sensible parent who thinks Instagram and tick tock are healthy for children. And if Zuckerberg and the rest of these clowns only interest is making money over the safety of children. They're no better than the cigarette companies 30 years ago with Joe Camel.

All of these guys just want to get what's on their notes out on the record. They don't care how stupid the question is or how stupid the framing is.

ATF might have a response for you about that.

It’s been that way before the internet. Same shit just a different toilet

No, in the USA profit rules life!

the internet is not dangerous for children. many children has learn a lot from the internet, from facebook.

​@@xxDAMRONxxone of the best replies ever heard 😂

Trueee!!

what would you say if the kids came home with a short rack of beer and a carton of smokes, maybe they should have been vetted at the store? I too am a conservative and have a strong dislike of government interference, but this social media issue is relatively new, maybe best to permit 'some' government involvement till the dust settles in another decade or so, then maybe there might then be a way to keep minors away from it or at least with limited exposure...

It's incredible isn't it?

thank you!!! Probably one of the few people I have seen who has brought this up. Very ironic that people who believe (or pretend to believe) to be conservatives instantly surrender and fold like cheap lawn chairs when it comes to government regulation of social media companies. What happened to "personal responsibility " or "parent rights"? Aren't parents the one who should be first and foremost the ones who should be responsible for what kids do and watch instead of the government? This is a slippery slope I might add, since if you are willing to admit that companies should be responsible for what people do with their products, then is it not logical that gun manufacturers be held responsible as well or am I missing something? If freedom means anything, then leave government out of this!!!

On Facebook.

The parents are busy on Instagram

Or don't have facebook...

FAMILY CONTROLS DOESN'T INCLUDE CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS

@@opirathathen take it up with the pta, not zuck. Or, homeschooling is always an option. The best option would be to leave the cesspool of california in the first place.

@@sorimasn correct, just saying family control is BS

Does Facebook have parental locks. However I wouldn't even let my kids use social media

😂😂😂😂😂 that’s what I said this is ridiculous!!!!

I mean they actually tried to ban fastfood and fat in the 90-00’s

Nah you're wrong about this, I work in mental health and I have a minor in computer science and they literally create apps and phones to have things like notifications, colorful designs, easy UI, and quick entertaining videos to hijack our dopamine receptors. It's an addiction to dopamine hits in our brains. Do your research instead of assuming he's wrong for blaming a company. Car manufacturers set out to create long distance transportation, and not to increase obesity but I bet there is a pretty strong correlation between when obesity rates began to climb, and the advent of widely available cars for most socioeconomic levels.

​@@legendofman12 * 90's lol but yea imagine that right

@@thesoren thx for the correction

How old are u

Considering it is more addictive than drugs, there should be awareness training and absolutely it should be age restricted.

Social media was built by teenagers, pretty much for teenagers and is still propped up by teenagers. By criminalizing it all you're doing is making kids lie to get on which would put them in more danger by making everyone else assume that they are adults and inviting them to adult activities. If Social media is that scary for you and your kids, have fun trying to monitor our prohibit it.

Parent's decision, not the government.

Social media was built by, for, and is still propped up by teenagers. Parent your children, don't attempt prohibit others. By doing so you're forcing the kids that still get on to lie, others will assume they're adults and unwhittingly invite them to adult events. Intead just limit the content that underage accounts are able to see and interact with. Or force underage acounts to be linked to some parent or gaurdian acount that can monitor and restrict as appropriate.

o....This is more than a parent thing

@leegrant7333 if the kids are under 16 using these social media platforms hours a day with little or no monitoring, it's a parenting issue.

cableguy....this is about regulations and protections have you even heard the severity of the case...... you actually believe its as simple as a parenting issue while child porn sites are still up..... parenting issue....I hope to Christ you don't have any kids.@@thatguycabe9092

The bill isn't about kids, they're using this as a weapon to attack Zuckerberg and others. What is essentially happening is they're weaponizing images of minors and such to stop encryption. I.E Zuckerberg wants your messages and what you do online to be encrypted. The government wants to break your privacy. Do some critical thinking.

Yea. It’s not the presence of the addictive substance in every public space, it’s the victims for becoming addicted to it.

he argues like a clown

Totally agree and adults themselves are victims as well

Who knew reptiles wore makeup, he wanted to look more human.

New wig.

Actually must be his Hawaiian suntan, and everyone looks better with some Sun.

@@ozplasmic351 You have to be born in Bohemian Grove on the day of Molek the owl god, then be baptised in the blood of virgins, and at last you have to spend a night with the mummified remains of Marylin Monroe. If you survive a night with her vengeful spirit while keeping a relatively sane mind, you become billionaire CEO

He has you all fooled. He's a hacker thief that stole everything he has.

Thank you

Yeah people just need to have personal responsibility. That's kind of the point of the American culture

They actually can. This has nothing to do with freedom of speech or expression. Unless we want anarchy, social media will need to be banned completely sooner or later. Also, don’t forget that it’s enemy totalitarian countries that mostly benefit from this situation (Russia, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc). They don’t have a problem with social media. It’s the Western world that has allowed this madness. But by creating an entire generation of emotional, our future generations are unprepared to fight simple things like disagreements, finding a job, keeping a personal budget or going through small bouts of depression, let alone economic greed, totalitarian regimes, extremism or climate change.

He’s the face in facebook.

COME ON some parents are as less educated as their own teens BAN SOCIAL media end of.

​@@SEPK09"Ban social media". 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I hear you. I never thought I'd be cheering for Josh Hawley.

In Georgia also. Concerning Ossoff - I agree 100%.

Exactly. Kids injure themselves and die at the playgrounds because of physics bullies and accidents. Sounds like a much more dangerous place than social platforms.

Parents are responsible, but all the sistem is against their effort. At school they need informations from internet and this is a big issue, because are all the triggers possible to redirect you to one of these platforms..

Mark is the ashol

@@ThanhVu-fq7oe I agree. I also think the questions from Ossoff, were written by an 8 year old and a terrible waste of tax payer dollars. We don’t need the government doing what the parents should be doing.

Yes, Zuckerberg’s life is much more important, that why he’s building a $400 million bunker in Hawaii. Those kids life’s are irrelevant.

Exactly, when I was a tween back in 2009 my dad put time limit on the Xbox 360 using the parental control settings......that was 15 YEARS AGO! We had parental control settings with time limits. Parents need to parent better! They literally have alllll the tools at their finger tips but never bother to use those tools to parent their kids better. My dad often let me go past the time limit and he would enter the pass code to let me keep play for another hour or two. But that's because I was active and played football, did my homework and did my chores etc. eventually I grew out of it a year or two later and he removed the time limit. Boom, simple as that. Not sure why parents are not using these settings to better parent.

My kids are grown, is it even possible to prevent children from being online? How do you prevent it when 1) they need a phone to call for rides, etc. 2) there are computers and internet at school, friends houses etc. I cannot imagine helicopter-ing over my children constantly. Not allowing them to navigate the world is also harmful to them so how do you, as a parent, do that?

Kids in China are torturing cats in horrific ways and live streaming it. Idiotic animal advocates here in the U.S. are uploading videos and screenshots to other platforms, saying they're "raising awareness." Search Google News for charged with animal cruelty cat killed and you'll see RESCUES being charged for torture. Someone needs to help these poor animals since national orgs are looking the other way. Parents can't monitor kids 24/7 when kids have phones.

@@DawgMama 1)The phone is provided by the parents so they can restrict and monitor those as desired. 2) the schools often lock social media sites so they wouldn't have access there. As for everything else with children, you set boundaries, if they are crossed there are consiquences. Sure, you can't prevent them from doing it. Just like you can't prevent them from engaging all manner of other nefarious nonesense. The internet is a dangerous place? It sure is. Just like the HWY and the kitchen and shower. Electricity is dangerous, but we take precations and parent our young to be aware of and avoid dangers.

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@DawgMamaSet child safety options to your preference and every once in a while take a look at their phone and see what kinds of things they’re looking at. There are plenty of options already to censor inappropriate content from your child’s phone. You don’t need to “helicopter” them constantly and you don’t need to prevent them from going online at all.

i dont believe addiction to social media will turn in to more advertising. There is a reason for financial channel on youtube get higher pay, when compare to channel for nursery rhymes. Having bunch of addicted kids wont bring revenue to the platform. otherwise, valuation pornhub would have surpass facebook long time ago.

why are you even here if social media only bring harms... drinking alcohol is so harmful and proven to be lethal, not just for kids. is it legal? this committee failed to address the need of good legislation to regulate social media like the EU. this is just a show for their upcoming campaign.

Insulting capitalism and the capitalist is more dangerous than an earthquake. If the dedication and supply of the capitalist weakens, it will be a crisis affecting the world's eight billion people. Therefore, people who insulted should apologize to Mark Zuckerberg. The world's 8 billion people must protect the capitalism and the capitalist, as they protect their own lives.

​@Frame_Verse Nonsense. Facebook is not capitalism and Mark Zuckerburg is not capitalism. And the existence of mega-large companies who can set their own prices and manipulate markets is not capitalism. What you are suggesting is that we, the 7.999999 billion people must bow down and let these oligarchs do what ever they want to do. Mark Zuckerburg is evidence of monopolism run amuck. He should apologize to the people. And you should better educate yourself before you spew any more nonsense.

​@@ginyilee6538Do you drink alcohol? Do you do it for 8 hours a day?

Damn straight

Because Facebook is acting like a publisher is the reason why they are being subpoenaed They are purposefully doing all they can to protect these predators

@@coppersulphate002 if you think they are doing it on purpose, you are delusional. Their only source of income is Ad revenue, not predators. In fact, they are incentivized financially by their Ad partners to moderate that kind of content.

@@asrenypyatkoThat’s the point. Regardless if it’s on purpose or not, it is still happening and needs to stop. They need to invest more into resources that can prevent this instead of investing to expand. That’s literally the whole point. We all know the platforms are dangerous but if the top executives are constantly denying it then we will get nowhere. Same with the Biden administration, nothing gets done because the problem isn’t addressed. It’s all being sugarcoated and we are being told there’s no issues. You can’t fix a problem if you don’t address it.

Thats a lot easier said than done. Why subject kids to a horrible influence which negatively affects them just because of their parent's inaction? Should we go ahead and legalize cocaine and say that its parent's duties to control their kids and tell them not to use it? Like cocaine, the internet is addictive, its dangerous, and it can ruin lives.

It’s the role of the government to protect the vulnerable. Children are vulnerable.

Yeah but when they specifically target children with targeted ads and propagandized shit it’s a problem…. Coming from someone who was born in 98’ and grew up glued to the internet and a screen I cannot fathom how bad it has gotten/will get for children growing up glued to screens more then ever. We’re creating a generation of easily manipulated people who can’t think for themselves.

@@tuxtitan780 The only one subjecting the kid to anything is their parent or guardian. Don't be disingenuous, social media and controlled substances are not on the same level. Though, I do agree with the spirit of what you are saying. I think there needs to be an age requirement to be on social media. Minors don't need to be on it.

@@tuxtitan780you’re obviously not familiar with the war on drugs and how disastrous it’s been.

Not

@@memyselfeyetallent7149 what's your beef?

How does spending more time interrupting and talking about how little time they have to explain than just letting him answer the questions make him strong and terrific? If parents have concerns about social media they should parent their fckin kids and leave everyone else's alone.

@@eddyb1596 When asked a YES or a NO question the answer is YES or NO. The waffling is typical defensive, babble by Zuck. Listen again to the questions.They require a one word answer.

@@carolesmith9235 its not a one word answer. Look, I don't like Zuckerberg or social media all that much either. I don't even know what party or who this politician even is other than this clip here. And all I see is a snarky, grandstanding, hack trying to shove words down an industry leaders throat so he'll cough up a good soundbite. There are tons of controls and tools to monitor and restrict children's use of and access to social media. Parent your own children. Leaves others alone.

😊

Why shouldn’t he? Of course he wants more people to use his product because that means more money. It’s not his responsibility to make sure kids don’t use it “too much”, that responsibility falls on the parents

ummmm he does support those things this is a ridiculous argument tbh😊

@ajohndaeal-asad6731 I replied too quickly quickly to this clip. I know he tries to support the proactive social programs. I'm just so sad that our government can't agree to effective and efficient social programs all around. It's been my life's work. I will always vote for pro social programs and social justice. It never comes through in a meaningful way. I know it's way more complicated than politically. I'm so tired of the battle. And I'm just a career person. It's not actually affecting my life as it does for multitudes of others. I kind of wish that Ossoff didn't use the tactics he did. It was mean and intentionally 'bully like'.' But that's our system, unfortunately

@ajohndaeal-asad6731 Yikes! I did not review or revise my long response! Apologies for responding before rereading and correcting my errors.

Do kids still go to youth groups

then tell texas people to stop banning porn

@@ajohndaeal-asad6731they should stop banning porn. “Its harmful and addictive”, so is alcohol, smoking, and gambling. But, we don’t put a ban on gas stations that provide access to all of that.

@@sorimasn you prove my point.

He's a grandstanding goof of a senator

How does spending more time interrupting and talking about how little time they have to explain than just letting him answer the questions make him "the man"?

@@eddyb1596 unrelated to this video he’s the man. I barely watched as I got pretty bored pretty quick.

Ehhh. Guns are different, they have a positive use, like protection or getting food, i don't see anything positive from facebook

Gun manufacturers sell a product. Just like a chainsaw or a car. Must be used with respect because mishandling or unauthorized use by people who lack knowledge/skill to use it can be deadly. Social media companies sell a service. The reason congress is after social media so hard is because social media has a safe harbor act called Section 230 which absolves them of all responsibility for whatever goes on in their platform. Thats why these talks are basically just pointless viral scolding sessions rather than any charges being brought up against them. Repeal Section 230 and see how fast these companies clean up their services. Same thing with youtube and even legacy media who get away with reporting blatant lies only to issue a single line of “oops, we were wrong” correction at the absolute bottom of the page weeks or months after the story died.

I agree, more of the point was this is all bs. @@spiderhands

@@spiderhands,yeah the Freedom of Speech is only the very First Amendment of the Constitution.Smarten up. 😏

​@@spiderhandsKeeping contact with people that isn't close too you, express your ideas, creating memories and seeing those memories years later... Just to mention a few examples. So yes, there's a lot of serious issues in social media, but pretending that there's nothing interesting about it is just delusional, specially because you give the shape of what you want from a social media.

FACTS!!

Cheapest babysitter

The parents are on social media all the time

Remember when it was Rock & Roll, then it was rap, then it was video games? Now I guess it's social media. SMH

Right

So what are you proposing? That Mark Zuckerberg be the world's most highly paid babysitter? It's not HIS job to monitor kids' online activity. That's why they have PARENTS!

I don’t blame him. It’s his company. He built that shit from the ground. It’s not his fault kids are on it. Parents need to regulate what their kids are doing 🤦🏽‍♂️🤡💯

It's full of Scammers with Fake Profiles and I've even reported Pedophiles who try to lure minors but FAKE Book doesn't do anything with my Reports!

@@TimmyTOnTheFly Yes, it absolutely is his fault for enticing children with his "shit" as you put it. So now, do you work for him too?

maybe parents can take some accountability when it comes to their kids using social media? A public playground can be dangerous too that’s why we have law enforcement & parents to educate and protect children no amount of public policy is going to change that

And then he won’t even let mark finish a sentence 😒

do you say the same when it comes to alcohol or tobacco? Or are these pretty much controlled by government -- not directly by parents? So there is some measure of control, in these instances it's government, why should not there be 'some' modicum of government oversight with media and minors?

Regardless of that, they do have a responsibility to make it safe for children.

@@luispirosSo does parents

@@MD19853 so does social media and so do parents. It just so happens this is about social media.

Then also sliding in that “the internet is dangerous” like that is epitome of a slippery slope

Oh. Well then we should allow everything. Try using logic next time before commenting.

@@bullcrap9409 lol, great job putting words in my mouth. If you had reading comprehension skills, you would've seen that all I said was that the questioning was unfair.

You are glad to see people ask dumb questions?

Is it easy? Do you have kids? Peer pressure is very hard to deal with. Have you seen the ads with provocative elements to entice. Dumb questions are not asked out of blatant ignorance

@@mikebazinet2702 I have two kids. Peer pressure isn't hard to deal with. What do you find to be hard?

Yeah except he better not expect that fact campaign contribution from his liberal elite social media moguls next election after this 😂

@letsgobrandon987 those were certainly a collection of words. Have a nice day sir

There must be oppressors and oppressed /s. Socially responsible and active parents involved in their children's lives is obviously the answer here.

easier said than done it’s not really feasible on grand scheme of things

@@ajohndaeal-asad6731 Not feasible for parents to supervise their children? Well they shouldn’t have children if it’s too unreasonable to supervise and parent in my opinion.