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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?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Wednesday December 06 2017, @11:12PM (6 children)
FB knew or should have know an illegal act is occurring and report it
The law is illegal. There is nothing in the 1st Amendment that makes exceptions for foreign nationals. The statue simply states "no law". If you want to make exceptions you have to amend the constitution, and that procedure is explicitly spelled out also.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday December 07 2017, @01:10AM (1 child)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday December 07 2017, @01:11AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 07 2017, @11:23AM (3 children)
The voting voters' representatives passed the law, so it must be okay. The voting voter have all the power and can change the law any time they want to, but they haven't, so they must want the law in place!
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday December 07 2017, @05:33PM (2 children)
This is true! It always comes back to the voters' wishes... The collective has spoken!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 08 2017, @11:50AM (1 child)
Just as you said, the voted-in law is the law! But you also said that the law in question was illegal.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday December 08 2017, @03:16PM
Yes, it is in violation of the constitution. Popular approval doesn't make it any less so.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..