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Why Is It The U.S. Senate Or “Big Tech’s” Responsibility To Keep Kids Safe Online, And Not Their Parents?
I guess the first word you come back to always with these things is grandstanding. Nothing ever gets accomplished at Congressional hearings. What happens is that guys like Ted Cruz get their staff to print out comically-large tweets, or bring along books where gay dogs get married, and then the people on the Congressional dais chastise Big Tech leaders, and there’s some nice sound bites and moments, but ultimately the Big Tech leader flies back private to the Bay Area and we mostly forget about all of it for another 1.5 years, or another until grandstanding hearing.
The last little cycle we had, last week, was about “child online safety,” and basically you saw some of the clips Josh Hawley will use in his 2032 Presidential run on display, including forcing Zuck to stand up and apologize to parents who had lost children to online bullying, tainted drug purchases, etc:
