Jack, Mark, and Sundar on the hot seat right now talking about the legal responsibility (they don't currently have any!) tech has for harms on their platforms. commerce.senate.gov/2020/10/…

Love how Chairman Wicker is using the themes from #HerrickVGrindr that these aren't scrappy companies run out of garages and dorm rooms. And it's time for the benefit of being free from liability to end.

When we talk about the power wielded by FB & Twitter about failure to restrain the dissemination of illegally obtained material, we must think about harms not just to politicians, but also ordinary ones, like when my client's 17 yo daughter's murder was liveposted on Instagram.

Big tech is not just the arbiter of what's true and untrue. They are also the arbiter of who gets harmed, for how long, and how badly. Sction 230 protects tech from responsibility for things like serial rapists using rapists and production and sharing of child porn

Sundar says the internet is the "great equalizer." Is it though? Because it sorta seems like it just empowers the powerful. And amplifies the already loud. You know what actually is a time tested equalizer? Our civil court system. Which you, Sundar are fighting to be outside of