US Senate considering holding hearings to Elon Musk purchase of Twitter

[The Grand Illuminist]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-28/musk-is-in-senate-democrats-sights-over-plans-to-buy-twitter

Some key Senate Democrats are considering calling Elon Musk to testify on his plans to remake Twitter, amid broader calls in Congress for new regulations for tech and social media companies.

There are no imminent plans for hearings, but, “We’re thinking about it,” Senate Commerce Chair Maria Cantwell said in an interview Thursday.

The Washington state Democrat noted the committee has previously had hearings with former Twitter Inc. Chief executive Jack Dorsey, Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai. They were questioned about a decades-old legal shield that protects social media companies from liability for user-generated content posted on their sites, commonly referred to as Section 230.

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Markey said the Commerce Committee makes sense as the venue given its jurisdiction over the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission.

“In terms of what the values are that this company is going to be creating for the new Elon Musk Twitter world, I think that’s actually a necessary role for Congress to play,” he said.

[rso]

1. Musk

Good idea, but hurry up, as we don’t know whether democrats will still hold the Senate as of next January.

[leftstreet]

2. Hearings to ask what his plans are?

Not hearings about the legalities of the purchase itself? Weird.

Are they planning to ask Raytheon what they'll be doing with all the money they're getting?

[Celerity]

3. Giant waste of time, as it does nothing to help us out of freefall electorally, and will give Musk

stage to play the victim.

97, 98% of voters do not give a toss if he pisses away 44 billion usd on Twitter or not.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

10. Exactly

With all the current issues going on there will be many who think "this is what Congress wants to waste its time on?"

[RKP5637]

4. Media companies are really getting more powerful than government, as they control the

perceptions about many things for many people. Media companies can foster truth or propaganda and disinformation. We've seen examples of both.

[TheFarseer]

7. This will be a great chance

To grandstand for voters and then let giant corporations do whatever they want.

[Hoyt]

8. We have enough wasteful hearings going on. Hearings nowadays have become platforms

for Congresspeople to make soundbytes.

[Miguelito Loveless]

9. This will fuel

Musk’s persecution complex.