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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, @09:37PM
They moderate the content so much for the specific purpose of making money, it is not reasonable to believe it when they say they are unable to moderate the content in a way that makes it not possible to specifically display ads to people they have identified as untouchable non-gendered computer information system experts that post on an alternate news site trying to escape their influence.
if they accept money to present messages deemed illegal by any country, then...
frankly I would like the ability to censor other people from what I can see, so that they are free to talk to people that want to listen. but capitalism calls that censorship if I am not forced to endure drivel.