shouldn t be regulated. i actually think the question is more what is the right regulation rather than yes or no, should it be regulated. what s the right regulation? well, there are some basic things that i think there are some big intellectual debates on. on the basic side, there are things like ads transparency regulation that i would love to see. if you look at how much regulation there is around advertising on tv and print, it s just not clear why there should be less on the internet. okay. so, dennis, when it comes to regulation, what would more regulation mean for facebook? can you imagine cigarette labels being on facebook and surgeon general warnings about your data may be used in certain ways? i don t think that really solves the problem. look at what happened with microsoft and the regulation they had 20 years ago about trying to bust up windows. of course, facebook doesn t want to be regulated, so that s an impossible question for mark can t say, i don t want to
issue. they threatened to sue the new york times if they released this story. that s facebook whistle blower, saying that facebook was not trying to let s look at one part of zuckerberg s big p.r. tour. he now claims to be open to the exact claim that his company has been lobbying against. and i ve got to say to mark, this one takes a lot of chutzpah i m actually not sure we shouldn t be regulated. there are things like ads transparency regulation that i would love to see. but if you look at how much regulation there is around advertising on tv, in print, it s just not clear why there should be less on the internet. he s referring to regulation of political ads online. which facebook lobbied against. facebook paying lobbyists to kill the regulation.
an increasing increasingly important trend in the world and i actually think the question is more what is the right regulation rather than yes or no, should it be regulated? what is the right regulation? there is basic things, i think there is some big intellectual debates. on the basic side, you know, there are things like ads transparency regulation i would like to see. if you look at how much regulation there is around advertising, on tv, in print, just not clear why there should be less on the internet. should have the same level of transparency required. i don t know if a bill is going to pass. i know a couple of senators are working really hard on this. but we re committed and we actually already started rolling out ad transparency tools that accomplish most of the things in the bills that people are talking about today. we just think this is an important thing. people should know who is buying the ads that they see on facebook and should be able to go to any page and see t
can t imagine he s been in many scenarios where he s been challenged and members of congress love nothing more than a good old-fashioned wearing and to beat him up, and in a lot of ways so much of his legacy is riding on this besides the business of facebook. makes me think of the baseball players who had to testify on steroids. it will be interesting if he comes before congress. he was also asked about regulation, in conversations with our show team it was an interesting response to him when asked if facebook should be regular fwlat regulated. why shouldn t facebook be regulated? i actually am not sure we shouldn t be regulated. i think the question is more what is the right regulation rather than yes or no should it be regulated what s the right regulation? well, there s some basic things that i think there s some big intellectual debates. things like ads transparency regulation that i would love to see. that s a big thing. ceo saying congress, we ll take
just a few minutes ago, we got word the house energy and commerce committee, a key panel that oversees tech and telecom companies, has invited facebook ceo to come testify at an unspecified hearing. we don t exactly know when. zuckerberg hasn t said anything right away as to whether he s going to attend. this could be the kind of thing that opens the floodgates for additional scrutiny. to your question whether this is enough for users, this is the latest in a long line of mishaps on facebook s part when it comes to privacy. that s why you re starting to see folks with #deletefacebook campaign. they have plenty of questions like congress about what happened. one of the things that caught my attention was when zuckerberg was asked about regulation and whether facebook should be regulated. here s what he said. given the stakes here, why shouldn t facebook be regulated? um, i actually am not sure we shouldn t be regulated. on the basic side, you know, there are things like ads