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The crazy thing about that online child safety hearing

Welcome to the age of Congress as photo op.

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Feb 06, 2024
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Failure and photo ops

That online child safety hearing was something else.

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. (pretty sure that β€œMo.” stands for Mook), berated Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg until Zuck apologized to hissing parents for awful things their kids endured. A bunch of other grandstanding Senators piled on too.

Takeaways From a Contentious Online Child Safety Hearing

It’s all kinda crazy when you consider the underlying reality:

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