By: Jim Puzzanghera
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-facebook-privacy-20110520,0,467998.story
Reporting from Washington—
A leading senator, angry that Facebook Inc. failed to stop millions of preteens from using its social networking site,...
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By: Jim Puzzanghera
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-facebook-privacy-20110520,0,467998.story
Reporting from Washington—
A leading senator, angry that Facebook Inc. failed to stop millions of preteens from using its social networking site, accused co-founder Mark Zuckerberg of lacking “social values” and being more concerned with building the company than with children’s privacy.
“It’s my general feeling that people who are 20, 21, 22 years old really don’t have any social values at this point,” Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) told another top Facebook executive at a hearing Thursday.
“I think he was focused on how the business model would work,” Rockefeller said about Zuckerberg, who was a 19-year-old Harvard student when he created Facebook in 2004. “He wanted to make it bigger and faster and better than anybody else ever had.”
The company’s policy requires users to be at least 13, a move designed to avoid federal regulations for web
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