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Senate hearings have become a circus. It is only a matter of time before one of the CEOs will deliver a Henry Reardon (Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged) styled speech
by KorematsuFred 6y ago
Senate hearings have become a circus. It is only a matter of time before one of the CEOs will deliver a Henry Reardon (Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged) styled speech which will leave these smarty pant Senators with an egg on face. It wont come from Sundar, Jack or Zuck but it will come from someone. Perhaps someone like Musk.
Instead of using these hearings to genuinely uncover information we don't have, Senators are using this to ask rhetorical questions that can give sensational headlines for the partisan websites e.g. "Who elected you ? Angry Cruz flays far left tech company Twitter's CEO". I have seen ordinary journalists asking more relevant and better questions to Jack and others than these Senators.
These hearings were once about people holding other powerful individuals accountable. Now they are about clever soundbytes ironically optimized for platforms like Twitter.
- wil421 6y agoPretty sure politicians have been standing on podiums spouting nonsense to boost themselves since ancient times. Roman senators did it and it’s only more sophisticated in a world with cameras and the internet.
- KorematsuFred 6y agoFully agree. It is just that now with internet even Senator hearings have become part of that theater in a similar fashion.
- rayiner 6y agoAnd now you know why they refuse to allow cameras in the Supreme Court.
- s5300 6y agoMusk may have just started this. Read the EULA for Starlink
- leftyted 6y agoIn other words, if juries deliberated in front of cameras, every jury would be hung.