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posted by martyb on Wednesday December 06 2017, @05:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the thorny-questions dept.

The bloom is off the rose:

It was about an hour and a half into a hearing with the Senate Intelligence Committee when Sen. Dianne Feinstein laid into Facebook, Google and Twitter.

"I don't think you get it," she began. "You bear this responsibility. You've created these platforms, and now they are being misused. And you have to be the ones to do something about it. Or we will."

The tech giants were being grilled by Congress over Russian trolls abusing their services to meddle in last year's US election, and the California Democratic lawmaker had had it.

It was just one of very public tongue-lashings the Silicon Valley companies received over the course of three marathon congressional panels last month, held over a two-day span. The hearings were anticlimactic, in part because the three companies only sent their general counsels instead of their famous CEOs -- a point several lawmakers bemoaned during the public questioning.

Is it Google, Twitter, and Facebook who don't get it, or Senators like Dianne Feinstein who don't get it?


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday December 06 2017, @08:10PM (9 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday December 06 2017, @08:10PM (#606354)

    It is hard to get closure when the scandals (mostly petty, but some real) are followed by weakening of protections (for land or people), then by pissing off allies, then ... then repeat ad nauseam.
    It's easier to get closure when the consequences turn out to be much milder than you feared, when you can draw a line and stop being reminded, or when you acquire clear hope for things to improve.

    Therefore ... not happening any time soon.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 06 2017, @08:44PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 06 2017, @08:44PM (#606381)

    I think I just spotted a victim of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday December 06 2017, @08:49PM (1 child)

      by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday December 06 2017, @08:49PM (#606384)

      I only have Industrial Disease, like Jesus.

      • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday December 07 2017, @04:24PM

        by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Thursday December 07 2017, @04:24PM (#606850) Homepage
        One of you must be wrong.
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    • (Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday December 06 2017, @09:25PM

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday December 06 2017, @09:25PM (#606419) Journal

      I think I just spotted a victim of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

      If you're able to ignore two guilty pleas and two indictments then you're the deranged one.

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Gaaark on Thursday December 07 2017, @04:19AM (4 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Thursday December 07 2017, @04:19AM (#606636) Journal

    It's also hard to get closure when the person who stole the leadership of her party from the better person (Bernie) loses and throws a tantrum by running off to drink wine and take long walks in the woods (while also secretly writing a book attempting to rewrite history and taking full responsibility by blaming everyone but herself and her cronies (esp. Wasserman-Schultz, and Bill)) leaving the guy she stole the leadership from to face the media and answer the questions as to why they lost.

    She ran off, tantrumed, wrote lies, and is now trying to "set the record straight".

    She is a LOSER.

    Get. Over. It!

    DISCLAIMER: Trump is also a loser.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 07 2017, @01:33PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 07 2017, @01:33PM (#606779)

      You are correct that they are both losers. To me it is a sad state of the country when those two were the "shining" examples of who should lead the country. Personally, I felt that the country would have been better off voting for someone's pet than either of the main party candidates for President of the United States. Sadly, I voted for a third party candidate as more of a protest vote because I could not hold my nose and vote for either Trump or Clinton.

      • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday December 07 2017, @03:43PM (2 children)

        by Gaaark (41) on Thursday December 07 2017, @03:43PM (#606828) Journal

        I've been voting Green the last few years because both the Liberals and the Conservatives (Canadian) are too entrenched and have too many connections that they have to pay by giving tax breaks etc to.

        The greens seem to be slowly climbing in the political ranks here: the NDP are the 'official' third party here, but they seem to be kind of stupid.... Bob Rae got in as the NDP leader/Premier of Ontario (on voting day, my wife and i were sick as DOGS and couldn't leave the bed to go vote: now we always vote on the early polling days) and spent money like fecking crazy, then had to cut like crazy to make up for it and bit off the hand that fed him..........crazy mess).

        I'd like to see a revolving door of, maybe Green/NDP for a while, maybe.

        I guess my peeve is that 'big business' has just tooooooo much power/money nowadays, and REALLY needs to be hacked away at and their power lessened. THAT may take a revolution, though.

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        • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday December 07 2017, @04:47PM (1 child)

          by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 07 2017, @04:47PM (#606859) Homepage Journal

          At the start of this millennium I realized that the important political battle this century would be whether governments were going to rein in the power of the corporations, especially multinational ones, or whether the corporations were going to make governments toe the line instead.

          • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday December 07 2017, @06:55PM

            by Gaaark (41) on Thursday December 07 2017, @06:55PM (#606939) Journal

            Yeah, looks like we're losing... :(

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