What a joke. The US Senate “grills” the CEO’s of the various social media companies. Senators like Linda Graham beat on Facebook, Tik-Tok, X, etc.
They are complaining about “sexual exploitation”, “trafficking” and other things that the Senate is concerned about regarding the social media companies. The irony or actually the hypocrisy of anyone in the US Congress pointing to such things while Congress itself has screwed up the lives of Americans in ways that cannot be counted. For decades Congress has messed up everything it touches yet it points at the social media companies and portends that it has the answers to anything?
Sure, the social media companies could do better but compared to Washington they are doing a fantastic job because at least they look at a problem then work on fixing it. Unlike Congress that generically does nothing but create problems for the public.
It’s laughable that US Senators point a finger at anyone. They have allowed sex trafficking across the US border, they have allowed murder via the import or drugs, they have allowed the enslavement of humans and the list goes on. Today the Senators bash the social media companies and even seem to complain the money they make while also borrowing and then printing money and running up a $100 trillion in debt. They also send billions to countries like Ukraine when that same money could be used for US veterans, helping people build US companies, better housing, better health care and the list goes on and on.
They grill the Tik-Tok CEO and shed tears about the “Communist Chinese Party” while allowing the Biden family and God knows how many other people in Washington to be paid off by the CCP. It’s all a hoke,
There is no left or right or Republicans or Democrats, there are only people playing their part and reading off their scripts and taking more money they deficit print.
The most absurd thing today about the Senate grousing over the social media companies and the deaths or injury of children who were “influenced” by such companies is that nobody points out the most basic question - “where were the parents”.
Insanity is the norm in the US.
It’s also laughable because Zuckerberg’s $419 MILLION take over of local election processes was a major factor in the Democrats “winning” in 2020. They can bring social media in to testify, but the Dems desperately need Zuckerberg to do “Election Steal 2.0”.
When Trump authorized DHS to do DNA screening of the invasion horde, it found THIRTY PERCENT of accompanied minors were NOT related to the adult bringing them into the USA. Was there ANY concern for the welfare of those minors then? Trump was concerned and maybe some Republicans, but the Democrats could not have cared less because all they see is new votes for them by a new perpetual underclass.
Innocent children to them are nothing but necessary cost of staying in power.
Besides, why would they care about kids when they are happy to slaughter a million unborn every year?
Congress reeks.