[foobaw]

I can't believe a senator asked "How does Facebook make money." I thought it was a rhetorical question at first but the senator was like "Oh!" when Zuck said "Ads."

[protomyth]

We've had a US Representative that worried about the island of Guam tipping over because the Navy added personnel to the island, so I'm not often surprised.

This actually points to a real failure of lobbying by the tech industry. Part of lobbying is to inform the lobbying target and make them look reasonable knowledgeable on camera. Ignorance is your problem, stupidity can be masked a bit.

[confounded]

It was a fantastic question.

It’s a public exposition; getting and decomposing/de-spinning fundamental answers is kind of the whole point.

Most Americans do not even think about thinking about how Facebook makes money, but use it every single day.

zucc’s shit-eating smile was my favorite part of the whole thing.