Perhaps Mark Zuckerberg treated UK Parliament with the "contempt" it deserved?

© 2019 Peter Free

 

18 February 2019

 

 

Look who's talking?

 

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, irritated a UK Parliament committee by not showing up to answer questions:

 

 

A devastating report from a UK parliamentary committee has taken direct aim at Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, accusing him of "contempt."

 

The UK's Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee (DCMSC) on Monday released its report on fake news following an 18-month inquiry, which has taken in evidence from 73 witnesses.

 

"By choosing not to appear before the Committee and by choosing not to respond personally to any of our invitations, Mark Zuckerberg has shown contempt towards both our Committee and the 'International Grand Committee' involving members from nine legislators from around the world," the 110-page report said.

 

© 2019 Isobel Asher Hamilton, Mark Zuckerberg humiliated by group of lawmakers, who accuse Facebook's CEO of spectacular leadership failure, Business Insider (18 February 2019)

 

 

Of Zuckerberg

 

Committee chairman Damian Collins reportedly said:

 

 

Mark Zuckerberg continually fails to show the levels of leadership and personal responsibility that should be expected from someone who sits at the top of one of the world's biggest companies.

 

© 2019 Isobel Asher Hamilton, Mark Zuckerberg humiliated by group of lawmakers, who accuse Facebook's CEO of spectacular leadership failure, Business Insider (18 February 2019)

 

 

Hmmm — I'm not a Mark Zuckerberg fan, but . . .

 

Considering Parliament's idiotic non-handling of Brexit — with just a few days left of the wasted two year respite against March's anticipated economic catastrophe — I doubt that anyone in that unesteemed body of predominantly staggering fools should boldly cast judgment on a still successful 464 billion dollar corporation's head.

 

 

The moral? — If Parliament doesn't like its self-evaluated irritations, it should (arguably) do something meaningful about them

 

Or is that too much for Parliament or, for that matter, its even more colossally useless sibling body in the United States?

 

What Anglo-Saxon national leadership has increasingly demonstrated to the world, is a complete disregard for exhibiting competent governance of any kind.