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I’m going to off on a tangent here, but what I find amusing is the theater circus the American Congress has been putting on with CEOs of big tech and social med
by tracer4201 6y ago
I’m going to off on a tangent here, but what I find amusing is the theater circus the American Congress has been putting on with CEOs of big tech and social media companies.
Suddenly these people care about misinformation? Really? I mean, to an outside observer Fox News and CNN are propaganda machines from two different sides of the spectrum. And they push these politicians political agenda.
But now we have social media where America’s elite can’t just kill a news story, and suddenly that’s so wrong?
I think back to 2003. I was in Asia and flipping between CNN and Fox News as Saddams statue was being toppled in Iraq. These media organizations peddled lies and were an important cog in the machine to reshape the Middle East, which only led to hundreds of thousands of deaths or people becoming refugees.
Social media has its own problems, but it’s quite insane that the same people who peddle lies each and every day have the audacity to act like they’re on some moral pedestal questioning tech CEOs. In fact they’re just mad they can’t control them. I saw this last week and couldn’t help but wonder that America can’t afford healthcare and had homelessness in most metropolitan cities... yet your leaders put on theater.
- pessimizer 6y agoCongress and tech CEOs are dancing together. Congress agrees not to make any actionable accusations, and tech CEOs agree to make a concerned face and promise to do better if given the legal tools.