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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 06 2017, @07:36PM (2 children)
And all of us were born into a world based on electricity, cars, and modern medicine. That doesn't mean we can't think critically about those subjects.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday December 06 2017, @08:18PM
Nothing stopping you thinking
Nothing stopping fb/t/g users thinking critically. But they don't - think, or care, for those millisecond moments where the "ick" is obvious. Just move to the next post.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 1) by DECbot on Wednesday December 06 2017, @08:57PM
Then what's all the commotion about electric cars, self driving cars, and medicinal pot? Outside of your social bubble, what evidence do you have that our society thinks critically? I interpret the GP as saying, society doesn't think critically and these business models were the norm during the millennials' formative years and thus they expect this to remain the norm even if it requires maintaining contradictions or imposing ludicrous mandates. At no point during their thought process does challenging or even questioning the norm is the natural course of action. It has become the norm to question what is in your bread and where those ingredients come from because industry has done some questionable things, but questioning the use of the major internet platforms is not yet natural as their abuse is not yet apparent.
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