Vários políticos sugeriram que, mesmo que não seja hora de acabar com o monopólio, o Facebook precisa ser regulamentado agressivamente. E, como um legislador apontou no início da audiência, a auto-regulação não funcionou bem no passado. "É um pouco como com os bancos em 2006, 2007, 2008 que disseram: - Oh, nós vamos nos auto-regular. Não se preocupe, vamos fazer isso sozinhos. A realidade é que eles não o fizeram e era necessário ter uma regulamentação rígida."
You have to ask yourself how you will be remembered. As one of the three big internet giants together with Steve jobs, I should say, and Bill Gates, who have enriched our world and our societies on, on the other hand, the fact that the genius will create a digital monster that is destroying our democracies and our societies for the moment?
Would you consider your company as monopoly? I think it is time to discuss breaking facebook monopoly because its already too much power in only one hand. Can you convince not to do so?
You cannot convince him because it's nonsense, naturally. You have given the example of Twitter. You have given the example, I think, also of Google. As some of your competitors, but it's like somebody who has a monopoly in making cars and say: "Look, I have a monopoly making cars, but there is no problem. You can take a plane. You can take a train."
A number of politicians suggested that even if it isn't time to break up a monopoly, Facebook needs to be aggressively regulated. And, as one legislator pointed out early in the hearing, self regulation has not worked well in the past.
"It's a little bit like with the banks in the 2006, 2007, 2008. The said -Oh, we are gonna do self-regulation. Don't bother, we are gonna do it ourselves. The reality is that they didn't do them themselves and it was needed to have tough regulation."
