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b_fung Feb 1, 2024

A day later, still thinking about the parents and young people in the tech CEO hearing and how to describe what it was like in the room.

Deafening silences. Hissing and groans. A devastating foil. They brought a tension never seen in past hearings. You could feel senators feeding off that energy.

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_MarkAlan_Feb 1, 2024

@b_fung it’s all political theater. If they really cared about protecting children they would be talking to gun manufacturers about how their products are killing children.

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_MarkAlan_

@b_fung And if the argument is that guns don’t kill people, people kill people, and argument the GOP have often used to defend gun manufacturers, then the same could be said for social media. The platform doesn’t hurt children, it’s the people posting on the platform that hurts children; a disingenuous argument in either case but it clearly illustrates the hypocrisy that is the current GOP.