>What legislation are you talking about? I mean... they only have one house of congress.
They can investigate and haul social media CEOs in front of the House - which they have done routinely, blaming them for things like Russian interference and Hillary losing the election. And any bull the Democrats throw out there against tech companies is magnified by mainstream outlets - who really do act like the arm of the establishment Democratic party when echoing Democratic talking points.
And elections are cyclical, today Democrats have the House, in 2021 they could have all three branches.
Maybe none of that would matter if it wasn't the case that these tech companies are ACTUALLY listening to these calls for censorship, even if Democrats have no power today.
>he POTUS himself routinely calls for censorship of the news media
POTUS is a doofus that mouths of all the time on twitter and press conferences and nobody (not social media companies, not the public) takes him seriously, with the exception of mainstream media outlets. It's been 3 years, and still, every tweet is the end of the world. He does have a lot of power to do a lot of things but he doesn't all those things, but the pearl-clutching that happens by the mainstream outlets anytime Trump tweets is now a joke on the media. And the media is stronger than ever under Trump, even after years of fawning over the Obama administration.
They can investigate and haul social media CEOs in front of the House - which they have done routinely, blaming them for things like Russian interference and Hillary losing the election. And any bull the Democrats throw out there against tech companies is magnified by mainstream outlets - who really do act like the arm of the establishment Democratic party when echoing Democratic talking points.
And elections are cyclical, today Democrats have the House, in 2021 they could have all three branches.
Maybe none of that would matter if it wasn't the case that these tech companies are ACTUALLY listening to these calls for censorship, even if Democrats have no power today.
>he POTUS himself routinely calls for censorship of the news media
POTUS is a doofus that mouths of all the time on twitter and press conferences and nobody (not social media companies, not the public) takes him seriously, with the exception of mainstream media outlets. It's been 3 years, and still, every tweet is the end of the world. He does have a lot of power to do a lot of things but he doesn't all those things, but the pearl-clutching that happens by the mainstream outlets anytime Trump tweets is now a joke on the media. And the media is stronger than ever under Trump, even after years of fawning over the Obama administration.