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Ro Khanna

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2018-05-26
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  1. “Like kind of stuff. And then lastly, that they didn't realize that they were asking for his help in terms of doing this, which was sort of like letting the fox guard the chicken coop. So let's go through that because I'm using, because he's testifying today in the UK, and this is going to go on for a while. Why do you imagine, I think it's too much of an excuse that they don't know the area? Because you represent the area.”

    2018-05-26 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Congressman Ro Khanna · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Say they don't know That was my favorite one. Oh, there were so many moments. We're going to go through them all. So we're going to talk about the Internet Bill of Rights in a second, but I do want to talk about the hearings because one of the things that was amazing is before it started, I was the one that made Marz Zuckerberg sweat with Walt Mossberg in that famous interview. And all the coverage was like, will he sweat? Can he answer questions? And I was like, look, he can. He can wear a suit. He can actually, he's an adult and everything else. And so I was talking about the juvenileization of tech billionaires, essentially, that we treat them like with kid clubs. But what I was struck by in the hearings, and let's go through a couple of things, was one, the lack of information about what they did. That was astonishing, lack of preparation. Two, the lack of focus on the real topics, the obsession with terms of service, on cookies, on things that did not matter from what's going on right now. And then third was that taking up his information as fact, like we do not sell information, congressmen, which technically he doesn't, but he does.”

    2018-05-26 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Congressman Ro Khanna · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “You wouldn't say they don't know basketball. You'd say what world are they living in? So first, you have people mispronouncing his name, then you had to ask people asking, what is a cookie? How does Facebook make money? And the biggest thing I didn't understand is they were like, tell us how we should regulate you.”

    2018-05-26 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Congressman Ro Khanna · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “Well, I think the country started out by thinking, wow, Facebook has really done something wrong, and by the end of the hearing, the Congress made Mark Zuckerberg look sympathetic because it looked like the Congress was totally out of touch. Right, exactly. And, you know, you would never say if someone were to call a LeBron Jameson.”

    2018-05-26 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Congressman Ro Khanna · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “Yes, I could have. I was like, I sat, you don't know. I was screaming at the television. It was like I was watching Game of Thrones or something. It was an astonishing display of idiocy. I don't know how else.”

    2018-05-26 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Congressman Ro Khanna · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT