扎克伯格今天在参议院司法委员会和商务委员会的联席会议上作证时，这位Facebook首席执行官被迫面对他的公司现在是否实际上是一家垄断企业。对Facebook垄断地位的担忧在去年浮出水面，要求拆分该公司的呼声越来越高。参议员林赛·格雷厄姆（R-SC）首先提出了垄断问题；后来，参议员丹·沙利文（R-AK）指出，监管“可以巩固主导力量”，这意味着在这种情况下，Facebook就是主导力量。

“谁是你最大的竞争对手？”格雷厄姆问扎克伯格。这位首席执行官很难回答这个问题，称谷歌、苹果、亚马逊和微软以不同的方式与Facebook“重叠”。

“如果我买了一辆福特车，但它不好用，我不喜欢它，我可以买一辆雪佛兰。格雷厄姆问：“如果我对Facebook感到不满，我可以注册什么样的产品？”。当扎克伯格试图再次细分Facebook的各种服务时，格雷厄姆重申了他的问题。

“我不是说类别。我说的是你们面临的真正竞争因为汽车公司面临很多竞争。他们**了一辆有缺陷的汽车，它在世界上传播开来，人们不再买那辆汽车，而是买了另一辆。在私营部门是否有Facebook的替代方案？”

扎克伯格试图给出一个较长的答案，说明“普通美国人如何使用八种不同的应用程序”与朋友联系，试图将Facebook描述为众多应用程序中的一种。此后不久，格雷厄姆直截了当地问扎克伯格是否认为Facebook是一家垄断企业。

扎克伯格回答说：“我当然没有这种感觉。”笑声在房间里荡漾。

交流内容如下:

Sen. Lindsey Graham: Who’s your biggest compe*****?

Mark Zuckerberg: Uh, senator, we have a lot of compe*****s.

LG: Who’s your biggest?

MZ: The categories… do you want just one? I am not sure I can give one but can I give a bunch? There are three categories that I would focus on. One are the other tech platforms: Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, we overlap with them in different ways.

LG: Do they provide the same service you provide?

MZ: In different ways.

LG: Let me put it this way. If I buy a Ford, and it doesn’t work well, and I don’t like it, I can buy a Chevy. If I’m upset with Facebook, what’s the equivalent product I can go sign up for?

MZ: Well, the second category I was going to talk about…

LG: I’m not talking about categories. I’m talking about real competition you face. ‘Cause car companies face a lot of competition. They make a defective car, it gets out in the world, people stop buying that car, they buy another one. Is there an alternative to Facebook in the private sector?

MZ: The average American uses eight different apps to communicate with their friends and stay in touch with people ranging from text to email—

LG: Which is the same service you provide?

MZ: Well, we provide a number of different services.

LG: Is Twitter the same as what you do?

MZ: It overlaps with a portion of what we do.

LG: You don’t think you have a monopoly?

MZ: It certainly doesn’t feel like that to me.

[laughter]

LG: Instagram. So you bought Instagram. Why did you buy Instagram?

MZ: Because they were very talented app developers who are making good use of our platform and understood our values…

LG: Is a good business decision. My point is: one way to regulate a company is through competition, through government regulation. Here’s my question, what do we tell our c***tituents, given what’s happened here, why we should let you self-regulate? What would you tell people in South Carolina, given all that’s happened here, why it would be a good idea for us to let you regulate your own business practices?

MZ: … well, Senator, my position is not that there should be no regulation…. I think the internet is becoming —

LG: Do you embrace regulation?

MZ: I think the real question, as the internet becomes more important in people’s lives, is what is the right regulation —

LG: Do you as a company welcome regulation?

MZ: If it’s the right regulation, yes.

LG: Do you think the Europeans have it right?

MZ: I think that they get... things... right.

[laughter]

更新时间：4月10日下午2:39分：这篇文章已经更新，引用了参议员丹·沙利文的话。