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Google saying internally in 2007 about the value of data to improve search what regulators and competitors have been saying for years https://t.co/idzk8HrkQP — PolitiTweet.org
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@backlon hm @CaseyNewton thoughts? — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @backlon: For fun (yes really) skimmed a few docs and have discovered that Tim Cook sends those terrifying "Thoughts?" Boss Email Forwar… — PolitiTweet.org
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Take me with you https://t.co/lgFreSRI8d — PolitiTweet.org
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Very good @CaseyNewton on today’s hearing, which I thought accomplished exactly what @davidcicilline wanted it to accomplish: lay out a pattern of behavior based on a huge amount of actual evidence. https://t.co/veW5rb3VoW https://t.co/h7O5fb8wsp — PolitiTweet.org
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And with that, this thing is over. That... was pretty brutal for these four. More to come on The Verge, which everyone appears to be reading :) — PolitiTweet.org
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Cicilline namechecks Louis Brandeis, which is a huge signal about where his proposed antitrust law reform is going. — PolitiTweet.org
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Cicilline wrapping this up. "This hearing has made one fact clear to me: these companies have monopoly power. Some need to be broken up, all need to be regulated." Says Zuck, Cook, Pichai, and Bezos are the new Rockefellers and Carnegies. — PolitiTweet.org
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Will Amazon agree to report all sales of stolen goods to law enforcement and to victims to track large scale offenders? Bezos says yes. Weird as hell? Yes, that was weird as hell. — PolitiTweet.org
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"Do you require a real name and address for sellers?" Bezos.... doesn't know? "I think we do." Same for phone numbers. How do you verify the info is accurate? "I don't know the answer to your question." Wild. — PolitiTweet.org
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"Yes we do use cookies" is not quite the Zuck admission McBath thinks it is? That was weird. Now she's asking if stolen goods are sold on Amazon. "Not to my knowledge," says Bezos, but >1m sellers so it probably has happened. Basically yes? "I guess so" says Bezos. He hates it. — PolitiTweet.org
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McBath asking Zuck about Facebook privacy policy in 2004 saying it would not use cookies. Zuck says Facebook still does not use cookies. "In general cookies is not a big part of how we collect information, we use them to have people stay logged in, for security." — PolitiTweet.org
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5.5 hours later, we're at what should be the final questioner, Rep. McBath. She asks yes/no to commitment to improving gender and racial equity. They all say yes. — PolitiTweet.org
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Neguse asks Pichai to commit to not using that data to develop competing apps. Pichai says Google does all kinds of market research, and but will work towards "more clarity." Neguse not letting it go, asks if Google uses the data to make competing apps. Pichai won't say no. — PolitiTweet.org
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Neguse namechecks The Verge :) Asks Pichai about data gathering on Android about apps usage. Pichai says this data is available through a public API. Pichai confirms that the data is collected with user consent, and it's critical to have it to improve Android. — PolitiTweet.org
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Cook says "we would never steal somebody's IP." — PolitiTweet.org
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Neguse to ask Cook about the App Store. Does Apple have to operate by the same rules as developers? Yes, says Cook. Neguse asks why Apple gets to submit clones of apps when the rules specifically prohibit that for others. Cook is "not familiar with that." Woof. — PolitiTweet.org
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Now Zuck with a correction: He is indeed familiar with the Facebook Research app. (Of course he is.) — PolitiTweet.org
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Scanlon asks if Amazon marketplace subsidizes the retail store, and who gets awarded the buy box on item listings. This is Amazon forcing third party services to use their services, pushing up that rate. Bezos says buy box favors products that can be shipped with Prime. — PolitiTweet.org
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Scanlon asking about Amazon fees going up from 19 to 30 percent, if it's evidence of market power. Bezos says sellers are just taking advantage of more Amazon services. (Which they have to to get ranked highly but sure.) — PolitiTweet.org
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Scanlon asking about Amazon pricing essential items when the pandemic first hit. Ring doorbells were designated essential, Arlo and Eufy weren't. Bezos says they were working quickly in surging demand and mistakes were probably made. — PolitiTweet.org
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Pichai asks to make a correction to the record -- he forgot that in 2009 there was a cyberattack from China that stole Google information. — PolitiTweet.org
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Jayapal asks Zuck if Facebook is so big that it doesn't care about the advertiser boycott. Zuck says changing policies because of advertisers is also the wrong thing to do. — PolitiTweet.org
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Jayapal asks if Google steers ad revenue to Google search. Pichai says competition is just a click away, which... drink! — PolitiTweet.org
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Pichai says Google is deeply committed to journalism and pays out high rates to publishers that use Google ads. "It's a low margin business for us, we do it because we want to help publishers." Jayapal not buying it. "There are reasons insider trading is a bad thing." — PolitiTweet.org
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Rep Jayapal back up, asking about Google's share of the various parts of the advertising market. Google runs the marketplace, acts on the buy side, and acts on the sell side. Love these granular ad questions! — PolitiTweet.org
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And with one final gasp of raging incoherence, the Jim Jordan Five Minutes Hate has come to an end. — PolitiTweet.org
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Now Jim Jordan is asking Tim Cook if he remembers Apple's 1984 Mac ad. Tim Cook remembers the most famous ad in Apple -- and advertising history. — PolitiTweet.org
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Cook just said some nonsense words. Pichai also muttered through it. Zuck is "very worried about some of the forces of illiberalism I see in this country." Bezos is also worried about cancel culture, and says social media is a "nuance destruction machine." — PolitiTweet.org
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Jim Jordan is asking the most powerful CEOs in tech if they are worried about the "cancel culture mob." — PolitiTweet.org
