Senator Lindsey Graham To Mark Zuckerberg: ‘You Don’t Think You Have A Monopoly?’ | NBC News 

Gordon Schnick lol

lol Graham did however show a constructive effort at the end

Gordon Schnick lmao straight up

No this is a series issue .

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lool

And then every one would say, special needs is down the hallway

Or, because they were on sale

New Kid the house of representatives? Sounds about right, including who has the current majority

As Zuckerbooger....is trying to answer the 1st question posed to him.... can almost see the BS coming out of his mouth.....

Exactly... What a stupid question was that?? Do these people understand anything about business, or are they just making a joke out of themselves just for the sake of it lol :D

@@Yourebeautyfull I think that he was suggesting Zuckerberg bought Instagram to erase the competition.

Besides its not like they just magically bought instagram. It went through all the government agencies before the move was finalized. Its government approved

​@@pancho33pistolas28 well that's just a business tactic i see nothing wrong in there

@@mountbolt8993 well you are right, It's a business tactic and a very good one hahaha but a monopoly is Bad for the Market, it's like being a dictator. Hahahaha I don't know if I made myself clear, english is not My first language.

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He probably just wanted to play nice honestly

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@KapKosmik Spelt: yes. Grammatically correct: No. Should have been "let me talk" indeed.

@KapKosmik it should have been “let me talk”. Speaking about grammatical inconsistencies, you can’t use the word literally in that context. It’s incorrect.

@Viostic1 What they are saying is the congress people should be more EDUCATED on the material they are discussing. You can't effectively interrogate people if you have no idea what you are interrogating them about. The congress people don't understand what they are talking about and can be seen repeating the same questions many times after being given an coherent and concise answer. This interrogation should have been preformed by people who have at least a little understanding of modern technology and the internet.

@Viostic1 I never said that. I see why you don't get the other persons comment. Also I must say I had to re read your comment and wft are you trying to say?? how dose that relate to them not knowing about technology??

@Viostic1 without giving Mark the rights to talk?, What's the point of freedom of speech then?

my understanding is to monitor domestic business,public, and privacy regulations due to increasing taxes ,wages,and not to mention on another topic a terrorist attack .The internet is plain a tree branching out with tons of concerns for the country ...Generally speaking

The only stupid things i see are your comment and Zuckerbergs answers.

@@travissearles23 ummmmm what

Sophia Blue yooo wtf is the other guy talking about?

@@pieque9962 I have no idea Tbh

Where's the answer button?

@@MontblancNorand I think it's on the bottom?

@@Canzandridas Well, in my opinion facebook covers multiple categories. So they should've specified which.

Its like mitsubishi. By this senators standards mitsubishi has no competitors. They provide aircons, cars, bikes and planes.

Bombarding someone with questions is a common political strategy by interrupting the person they try to answer faster. Essentially you wait for them to make a mistake this is literally everywhere...

I think he asks a question and realizes how stupid it is so changes it and makes himself looking even more stupid

@@snugglecity3500 Mitsubishi also sells tuna fish Globaly exporting it from japan

@j.j.cagney he sold his soul

@j.j.cagney then have you removed his platforms from all your childrens phones

i'll have my team follow up on that -

We all know how Zuckerberg is a very smart guy. So it's embarrassing to watch him pretend like he doesn't understand a simple question like "what is your biggest competitor?".

If human are that stupid I hope I'm not

This is how interrogation works

@@PriyanshuKumar-vj6gm bro what? This isn’t an interrogation

Isn't congress of US, the court there? Or is it something else and I was delusional my entire life. I am not US citizen so I don't know.

Then tell me Is there any company which is REALLY competing with FB family apps, ie Social media, Chatting and Pic sharing Social media?

@@PriyanshuKumar-vj6gm Congress is where law is passed your thinking of Supreme Court and mark is doing this to close rumors of data sharing

What other hand?

The #UnitedStatesOfAmerica "One Nation Under God/Fraud" is the real problem!

They're morons. Lol

They asked all the wrong questions. Go watch the EU discussion. That was all about security.

I think you may have looked a thesaurus wrong. You used the antonym of the word you were looking for.

not unintelligent they just dont know anything about this stuff

@@teseofabbri1812 yea unintelligent. Most of this hearing is full of questions any basic internet user knows. And they genuinely do not know the answers to what they're asking and half the time their questions don't even translate to anyone with a working brain. It's kinda scary and dangerous our elected officials lack this basic knowledge. Shows how weak our cyber security and internet is. With these people asking the questions, there's no telling what "THEY" can get away with.

@@teseofabbri1812 yeah but it's annoying how they try to hush him instead of listening

@@lifeismiserable7099 Lindsey Graham is by no means unintelligent. He had a crisp mental acuity when questioning Sotomayor, Kavanaugh, and Kagan which is enough to say that he’s very well-versed in law and I have a lot of respect for him regardless of his political affiliation. I think it is unfair on your part to judge a man on the basis of one subject he is not experienced in. Perhaps our elected officials aren’t as aware as we’d like for them to be, but you must be dense to believe that Lindsey Graham or any other senator greatly influences any aspect of America’s cyber security and domain over the internet.

@@lifeismiserable7099 I’m not going to come up to Chief Justice John Roberts and ask him to explain the basics of neuroscience.

The bar wasn't set very high

It's interesting that here we have a Republican arguing for more regulation. Usually it's the opposite.

And still he was stupid enough not to answer the questions in a direct manner. And really showing what avoidence looks like. Such an angel of greed and power this "suckenberg"...

Then why does he have so much trouble answering simple questions?

Travis Scott feat Mark Zuckerberg - Smartest In The Room

Time stamp?

This wasn't said

@@Flame-tw2ze he facial expressions says that..

It wasn’t said in this vid, it was in a different part of the meeting

Exactly 😭😂😂

That would just prove the point even more that it’s a monopoly

@@mercedbread9045 "sarcasm alert... pay attention" lol :D

@@Yourebeautyfull it’s a trap question regardless so he did well to avoid it

You expect an ai to explain something easy

noone is forced to use facebook, right?

Does he have a monopoly?

@@arielbatista7ify no

He's actually better than AOC

Pierre Curie he is not rude, it’s just Mark who tried to avoid question. I mean guy asked several time the same thing and Mark just starts to elaborate on something he has not been asked

Seimur Gabulov he was elaborating on the question. he wasn't even allowed to finish, how do you know what he was going to say?

@@joe-tr6te You don't "elaborate" on the question. You answer it. The question is the question.

Anon iconaclast you elaborate when the question isn't properly conveyed and can't possibly be answered without further elaboration. "Who is your biggest competitor?" Uhh, in what space? Lindsay Graham is a tool, a long with the majority of senators.

Q. How can you tell if a politician is lying? A. If their lips are moving!

That's just an attorney's methodology.

Only if they are dodging the question.

Gotta remember they are timed with questions.

@@travissearles23 So they don't even have to make a sound? "Ah, you're about to talk; don't even bother: everything you say is a lie!" Politician: "Okay, then I'll tell you another lie." "What is it?" "I lied; I'm not telling."

but it is relevant.

Why don’t u like him? He’s done literally nothing wrong for u to not like him

@@edilsonmendez7399 He is not very charming and he also kind of stole someone else's idea. Not completely, partially but still. I don't dislike him. He is very inspirational but he's also very sneaky.

@@ujjygbbhhjuyb1183 True

W_O_M_B_A_T Combat to follow you’re dreams like Steve Jobs said

Well if you’re not far left he’s gonna ban you and take away your Facebook account because you offend snowflakes like him, there’s one reason to not like him

MJ Z 😂😂😂

He's very smart when you think about it, he built Facebook as a project at University himself. That itself as a developer is a impressive feat.

Well honestly that's not a hard task for a University student especially a good University student. The hardest part is advertising your app so people actually use it. With that said, I'm not saying he's not smart. It's just not a good way of reasoning his smartness.

Too bad smart people don’t go into politics.

@@raptus9115 is it really? Doubtful....

He dodged it nicely.

Have these people never heard of twitter

@@BadDictator kinda but he was also being truthful FB is in so many different sectors media, streaming, vr, messaging, e commerce, gaming they legitimately don’t have a single competitor for everything

@@ShadowGaming-xw8zj Yeah true

@@krabmen2592 Twitter's market cap is $45bn and Facebook's is nearly 1 trillion dollars. They are not even close. Facebook is like 20X bigger than twitter and owns 3 of the most used social media apps in the world. The closest thing to Facebook is Snapchat and they are worth a $100 billion, so technically Facebook has no real competition. They can buy whatever comes close to dethroning them.

What's all so amazing is how much better off our generation was without social media we went out and actually saw the world and look at people in the eye when we talked to them and respond so there you go my friend Zuckerberg look and talk like a robot Graham talk and sounded like a person so maybe you want to get out of your basement right now and go see the world my friend and see what it feels like to have a little time to act a little human contact not your little phone on your lap kind of like I'm doing now I guess pretty funny huh anyways that wasn't meant to be mean but you hit a nerve with that it's true and I'm telling you though of course it's not exactly the way I put it. We didn't need social media we went to the playground and play ball threw the ball around we played tag we played hide-and-seek and then we got into our 8th grade years we walked up and down the neighborhood causing little bits of trouble and nothing major and then we got in high school we went out and met at the school yard and actually had contact with each other and then we got to college we would get out play a little ball go to some games watch other games and then all that s*** hit the fan and you don't see anybody out playing anymore so just want you to know

JOHN CHIROPOLOS did they teach you how to punctuate back in those days??

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Sure I understand social media. It's a business where they get people's personal information and sell it to the highest bidder

@@merit2591 No. They collect your information, that is true. However, they don't just "sell it to the highest bidder." They receive ads from organizations and companies, which they charge based on how much the ad is seen and how much it is opened. They use your data in order to give you ads that you are most likely to open, and hence they can charge more money to the companies and organizations since their own websites are receiving more traffic as a result.

Funny how? Zuck's age is irrelevant to the power his company has. The man is a billionaire. Young or old that's power.

Faraz Younus HIS "PLACE"? ZUKERMAN HAS 10 TIMES THE I.Q. OF ANY GOPRAT.

Graham is a dinosaur and the perfect example of why we need term limits for US CONGRESS

Francis Muiruri I'm 27 and I really don't like to hear persons talk like that, congress isn't being interviewed for a job. Bill Gates is old isn't he?

Faraz Younus nah Graham better know his place before he's bought out. Marks not worried.

Facebook is becoming pointless. Nobody likes biased censorship.

Earla Weese you mean youtube right? Thats basicly yt.

@@earlaweese How was it possible?

@@earlaweese she meant this discussion. The senator didnt even know what he was talking about....

Rusty Shackelford If they ban neo Nazi I am ok with that

Popped a molly I'm sweatin

@@mumblerapper1105 Popped a monopomolly, you might say.

Sean Brandt he asked because mark paid $1B when he coulda gotten it for free on the app store

@@thomascars1 ok that was good lol

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That's a question like lawyers ask every day. The objective is that the explanation provided by the witness has inconsistencies and allows further probing.

Dumb old politician,Arent they using social media's ?

It wasn't a real question that he wanted to know. The question was only a set-up.

Lol, he only thought about Fords and Chevys and tried it's a similar and analogous situation.. one is cars, the other information

What about Reddit

he doesn't feel anything he's an AI lol

There isnt a biggest competitor.. it was Instagram which is exactly why he bought it lol. If there were another big competitor he would just buy it, which 100% makes what he's doing a monopoly.

notsAhsoJ wait, does facebook own twitter? Cause i would definitley say if not, then they their biggest competitors

notsAhsoJ if companies have rights not to get bought and have sufficient legal defense, and can make a similar product without sharing revenue with zuckerberg, it's literally not a monopoly.

@@redfire696 twitter is a completely different thing than facebook and , like I said, if Mark saw it as a competitor he would buy it

@@edgeisloveedgeislife5439 "In law, a monopoly is a business entity that has significant market power".. You can legally own the top companies in any given sector and it can still be considered a monopoly haha. Plus, I did not call Instagram nor Facebook a monopoly I said what he is doing is a monopoly, or at least his intent

Yes but Mark is targeting to replace the national currency and banking with his Libra coin

You're right, but I'd be surprised if Amazon wasn't targetted by this in the past

How is Amazon more of a monopoly. There are hundreds of websites you can buy products. Show me an alternative similar to Facebook

Mr Fantaman Amazon has a majority stake in multiple sectors its like the perfect monopoly,

Really? You cant buy crap anywhere else aside from Amazon? Smh

I truly agree with you on that,

Some peopLe are ignorant of profitability in forex investment and that has been the major issues Limiting their investment

@@louisivan3022 I think the pandemic has taught people the importance of multipLe stream of income, unfortunately having a job doesn't mean financial freedom or security

With the consistent weekly profits Im getting investing with Aaron James Benyamina there's no doubt, he is the most reliable in the market

Ever since I Lost my job with the ministry,I have been surviving through my investment with him, am so glad I invested when I did

depends what you mean when you say competition. everyone uses the app for different aspects of its service. for example, im sure facebook doesn't have a monopoly on messaging since thats more of snapchats thing. It does however have a monopoly on FACEBOOK (and yes instagram too but thats not the point). the point is that the metaphor the senetor uses doesn't really work because the two cars he mentioned doesn't really have much of a different in terms of usage purposes (simple way to say it is it gets you from point A to point B). HOWEVER, if the senetor used the metaphor of Tesla and a Ford, THEN it would make more sense because Tesla and Ford overlap in terms of geting from point A to point B but Tesla is electric while Ford is gas and DEPENDING ON THE PERSON'S PREFRENCE FOR THOSE PERTICULAR ASPECTS OF THE CAR, the person will choose one or the other. If you use the same logic the Senator is using, every company is a monopoly of its own company.

I agree. Everyone here is defending ol' zucc but he really weaselled his way out of that. "There are different communication apps like texting".... mhm. Only instagram provides a similar service to fb, and hol' up... you *own* that...

The thing I don’t get is- Facebook isn’t vital to human day-to-day survival. Why aren’t we going after real estate fat cats and calling out their monopolies?? Here in California, you need 4 jobs to pay the rent (and every job would prefer to have you part-time and it be your only job.)

@@alwaysyouramanda probably because if fb holds a monopoly, it's global. These "real estate fat cats" possess far less power than facebook. It is good that world governments are (at least trying) to reign him and his company in.

He was trying to explain that about twitter but congress only accepts yes or no answers.

LMAO

it technically was never anything officially beyond an indie company. it's just an indie company that never stopped growing

BRUH

Lizard

@@boberto2829 nah, he’s a synth

Yeah, and he's from space, coming to rescue us from our earthy sins.

Same I thought he's more like lizard but he's almost like human

Sturgeon PLOT TWIST: he’s old enough to know what MySpace is LOL

@@moneymakinmister8744 Maybe but most old people don't they only know what Facebook is they just got into the technology era.

Which one?

i like ur cut g

I know...it's HORRIBLE!!!

the only comment that made me giggle a bit

No. He’s asking mark to give any evidence that Facebook is not a monopoly. FB buys all its competition, but if Zuckerberg can name one competitor that does what Facebook as a whole does, then evidently FB does not buy all its competition. Zuckerberg could not name a company because he does in fact buy out the competition

@@neontime8507 MySpace exists

@@busyporpoise6924 Cmon

or Updog

😂😂

Ha Ha!!!

Which is owned by...guess who.

Little did he know..

Don’t flame but Weibo 😹

No No Mike......you won't sell that one.....you used the word " chose ". It is impossible to do that when Choice does not exist .

facebook is a monopoly. using its size to downplay competitors or buying them outright.

Rokinco that is LITERALLY what businesses do, does facebook have exclusive rights to social media? no? do competitors have the same legal rights? yes? it's not a monopoly.

@@edgeisloveedgeislife5439 yes it is. Just because that's what businesses do doesnt negate that it's a monopoly. Name 1 popular social media platform that isnt twitter or snapchat

May god bless ppl with intellect

yeah I heard it, and spit my coffee all over my cat

Senator asks a yes or no question. Mark: *everything else but yes or no."

Lmao @ the people taking his comment too seriously

What?

Senator was forcing Zuckerberg to advertise for his competitor. That's wrong.

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But Aew comes up. What is for Facebook?

@@Kingslayer027 trolololol

He probably is still figuring it out lol

you didn’t let him explain. his competition can range to different apps and services it’s not as simple as comparing facebook to owning a car company and buying a car is a huge investment while using facebook isn’t a necessity AND FREE

you shock me *hugs*

Maybe because he was not answering the question that he was asked?

Because he is a politician.

@@nunodasilva5449 but hes trying to respond and he keeps interrupting him

@@nunodasilva5449 its okay that you hate zuckerberg, but dude, watch the video

Charles Dinkins Facebook owns MySpace

You wander what, John?