Mark Zuckerberg: I Agree We Should Be A Platform For All Ideas | CNBC — Transcript

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1. 0:00I'm certain that there are other things
2. 0:01you'd rather be doing the activities of
3. 0:04Facebook and other technology companies
4. 0:05should not surprise us I mean we've seen
5. 0:08it before and they don't take this
6. 0:09critically but we saw a large oil
7. 0:11company become a monopoly back in late
8. 0:1318-hundreds early 1900s we saw a large
9. 0:16telecommunications company become a near
10. 0:18monopoly in the in the 60s 70s and 80s
11. 0:20and just as Facebook these companies
12. 0:23were founded by bright entrepreneurs or
13. 0:25their companies grew and eventually they
14. 0:29sometimes became detached from everyday
15. 0:31Americans
16. 0:32and what happened is policymakers then
17. 0:35had to step in and reestablish the
18. 0:37balance between those those folks and
19. 0:41everyday Americans you didn't intend for
20. 0:44this to happen it did happen and and I
21. 0:46appreciate that you've apologized for it
22. 0:48and one of the things I appreciate about
23. 0:49Facebook it appears you're proactively
24. 0:51trying to address the situation just as
25. 0:54we address those monopolies in the past
26. 0:56and we're faced with that similar that
27. 0:59situation today we need to and this this
28. 1:03goes beyond Facebook this has to do with
29. 1:06the edge providers it has to do with
30. 1:09social media organizations and also with
31. 1:11ISPs back to to Facebook and
32. 1:14particularly though we heard examples
33. 1:15yesterday during the Senate hearing and
34. 1:18also today during this hearing so far
35. 1:19about ideological bias among the users
36. 1:23of Facebook in my Texas district I had a
37. 1:27retired school teacher who's
38. 1:28conservative postings were banned or
39. 1:31stopped the good news is I was able to
40. 1:34work with Facebook's personnel and get
41. 1:36her reinstated that said the Facebook
42. 1:39centers still seem to be trying to stop
43. 1:42her postings and I anything you can do
44. 1:45in that regard to fix that bias will go
45. 1:47a long way I want to move a different
46. 1:50direction that's to talk about the
47. 1:51future Congress needs to consider policy
48. 1:54responses as I said earlier and I want
49. 1:56to call this policy response privacy 2.0
50. 1:59and fairness 2.0 with respect to
51. 2:01fairness I think the technology company
52. 2:03should be ideologically agnostic
53. 2:05regarding their users public facing
54. 2:08activities the only exception would be
55. 2:10for potentially violent behavior
56. 2:12I'll ask my
57. 2:13question is on this do you agree to
58. 2:15Facebook and other technology platforms
59. 2:17should be ideologically neutral
60. 2:20congressman I agree that we should be a
61. 2:23platform for all ideas that we should
62. 2:25focus on that good I you got - I've got
63. 2:27limited time with respect to privacy I
64. 2:30think that we need to set a baseline
65. 2:31when we talk about a virtual person at
66. 2:34each technology user establishes online
67. 2:36their name address their online
68. 2:38purchases geolocation data websites
69. 2:40visited pictures etc I think that the
70. 2:43individual owns the virtual person
71. 2:45they've set up online my second question
72. 2:47is this you said earlier the each user
73. 2:49owns their virtual presence do you think
74. 2:51that this concept should apply to all
75. 2:53technology providers including social
76. 2:55media platforms its providers and ISPs
77. 2:59congressman yes in general I mean I
78. 3:01think that people own their and think
79. 3:02I'm not going to cut you off but you can
80. 3:05provide more information supplementally
81. 3:07after if you don't mind in this regard I
82. 3:10believe that Congress enacts enact
83. 3:13privacy standards for technology
84. 3:14providers just as we have for financial
85. 3:17institutions healthcare employee
86. 3:18benefits et cetera the policy should
87. 3:20state that the date of Technology user
88. 3:22should be held privately unless they
89. 3:24specifically consent to the use of the
90. 3:26data by others this release should be
91. 3:28based upon the absolute transparency as
92. 3:30to what data will be used how will be
93. 3:33processed where how where it will be
94. 3:35stored out what algorithms will be
95. 3:37applied to it who will have access to it
96. 3:39it will be sold and to whom it might be
97. 3:41so the disclosure of this information
98. 3:43and the Associated opt-in actions should
99. 3:47be easy to understand and easier for
100. 3:49non-technical users to execute the days
101. 3:52of the long scrolling fine print
102. 3:54disclosures with a single checkmark at
103. 3:56the bottom should in in this regard
104. 3:58based on my Facebook I think you've come
105. 4:00a long way toward the meeting of that
106. 4:02objective I think we must move further I
107. 4:04have two other questions submit later
108. 4:06and thank you you can expand on your
109. 4:08responses tomorrow to your questions
110. 4:09later
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