"MPs found the majority of Mr Schroepfer’s answers about Facebook’s business practices, including their policies on the privacy and protection of users’ data and their relationship with Cambridge Analytica and associated companies, to be unsatisfactory."
"Mr Schroepfer, who was appearing as a witness in the Committee’s inquiry into Fake News, failed to answer fully on nearly 40 separate points, including.....
This is interesting, so are these like a rogue group of MP's who actually take their job seriously and think government should return to its non-theatre basis?
This is interesting, so are these like a rogue group of MP's who actually take their job seriously and think government should return to its non-theatre basis?
This is possible, but the theatrical value of these (televised) hearings shouldn't be underestimated.
But if politicians asked real questions and demanded actual answers, the theatrical value could be replaced by actual value, which is supposed to be the point of the democratic process in the first place. As it is, more times than not we are paying a massive number of very expensive people to engage in theatre that no one wants to watch to produce results that often do more harm than good, and are rarely resemble what the voting public wants.
Select committees and there are a lot of them actually do a lot of real work as opposed to the eqvielent committees in the USA.
A lot of legislation starts out that way and also they can effectively say Mr/MS x is not a fit and proper person to be a director which is a serious problem for uk domiciled companies as they would have to be fired.
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"MPs found the majority of Mr Schroepfer’s answers about Facebook’s business practices, including their policies on the privacy and protection of users’ data and their relationship with Cambridge Analytica and associated companies, to be unsatisfactory."
"Mr Schroepfer, who was appearing as a witness in the Committee’s inquiry into Fake News, failed to answer fully on nearly 40 separate points, including.....
This is interesting, so are these like a rogue group of MP's who actually take their job seriously and think government should return to its non-theatre basis?
This is possible, but the theatrical value of these (televised) hearings shouldn't be underestimated.
But if politicians asked real questions and demanded actual answers, the theatrical value could be replaced by actual value, which is supposed to be the point of the democratic process in the first place. As it is, more times than not we are paying a massive number of very expensive people to engage in theatre that no one wants to watch to produce results that often do more harm than good, and are rarely resemble what the voting public wants.
Select committees and there are a lot of them actually do a lot of real work as opposed to the eqvielent committees in the USA.
A lot of legislation starts out that way and also they can effectively say Mr/MS x is not a fit and proper person to be a director which is a serious problem for uk domiciled companies as they would have to be fired.
"so are these like a rogue group of MP's who actually take their job seriously and think government should return to its non-theatre basis?"
This brief fit of apparent competence is probably just a temporary aberration. Normal service should resume shortly.