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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: 3, Insightful) by PinkyGigglebrain on Thursday December 07 2017, @12:28AM
Thank you for posting that link, I hadn't heard about Feinstein's change of plans.
I had been planing on moving out of CA early next year but now I'm going to stick around in CA till after the next election. Just so I can vote against her.
Whoever has the best chance of beating her will get my vote, I don't care if I have to vote Republican or even Nazi. Hell's I'd even vote for Hillary if she ran against Diane and looked like she could win.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."