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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, @08:27PM
Good catch.
But seriously? She's running again? At what point does this approach farce? Is she trying to break some kind of record?
And politico describing her as a centrist? Holy crapweasels, she's no centrist to anyone I know. She's the poster child for hooking the democratic catfish and reeling it as far left as the voices in her head will help her get it. Bernie's maybe to her left, Warren's maybe a little to her left, but centrist? Nope.