On Thu, 02 Nov 2017 23:34:15 -0500
JAB <here@toadsfoot.net> wrote:
> Lawmakers slam social media giants for fake news and Russian ads
> WASHINGTON - Lawmakers came down hard Wednesday on executives from 
> Facebook, Twitter and Google for failing to stop peddlers of Russian 
> propaganda from buying ads, sowing social unrest and spreading fake
> news on their sites.
> 
> "You created these platforms and now they are being misused. And you
> have to be the ones who do something about it - or we will," Sen.
> Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) told executives of the California-based
> companies.


This is so hypocritical it makes my teeth grate.  The very lawmakers
doing the criticizing may well have benefitted from "Russian"
interference.  I'm not denying Russia may have been involved.  I'm
stating these lawmakers would very much like to convince a docile,
stupid American public that the evil here is a foreign power, and not
the American politicians who seem, these days, to be deadset on sinking
this ship as they cash out.

Congress can go choke on a bag of dicks.  They are evil, hypocritical
bastards.  What they're doing to this country is reprehensible.
(Obviously, the other guilty party here is stupid Americans who have
allowed this to happen).