Tictok, X, Meta, Discord, Snap at Congress. Hostile was a word journalists used.
On display is Zuckerburg's lack of sophistication. I guess when you have the most important companies in the world possible to build by people who have no more capabilities than basic coding and a desire to rate girls at college as a project (none of the social, managerial, engineering, etc capabilities traditional to large company building, nor the legal, accountable etc ones traditional to large and powerful industries (perhaps unnecessary because of the speed of scale), what can you expect?
Seeing him grilled and attacked with the most unfair, irrational and not even logical attacks by Congress members, I naturally take his side, but then I remember the reason for this is he hasn't really tried to make a good product or accountable, and has allowed negative politics, censorship, etc. When he shows his self by responding how he does, I just think Ah it's not that he's really malignant, it's just that he probably is not capable of understanding or responding to such challenges.
You can consider that in a society that would prevent such things by limiting the speed and extent they can rise in use and power, you could see that Zuckerberg would today probably be a low level coder, or maybe would have switched fields.
Tictok's CEO showed himself more competant, as competant as you'd expect from someone appointed to his job, but didn't answer such questions as why topics which the Chinese government is sensitive to are ‘censored’ or ‘shown less’ in China (although he said Tiktok isn't available in China, so that would require more information to understand).
I wonder how X did? They're the only ones who've made (unpopular at the time and now) changes to try to address some problems.
Google is getting a lot of negative forcasts from news. That it's search is going to be competed against by cleaner, easier, more informative search, many use AI. People do search on Tiktok now, or search for things on Insta.
Obvious though that those competitors will need to monetize. Also, don't they have to compensate the sites and people they base their search results on?
Google Search had 92% of search a year ago when ChatGPT launched, and has 92% today.
It's the default search on almost all mobiles.
No one has more data than Google.
Drones are a huge leveler. Our air defenses are not capable. $2m for a rocket to shoot down a rocket that costs $2000.
The houtis have missiles that can make it through the US's marine defense.