ROGER SIMON: Do We Really Need Congressional Hearings?
Nevertheless, I had higher hopes for these hearings because the role of Big Tech is one of the most serious questions facing our country, and indeed the world, now. And it would be interesting to see the likes of Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, and the more anonymous but equally potent CEO of Alphabet and therefore Google, Sundar Pichai.
Unfortunately, other than glimpses of these Masters of the Universe, we got little more than we did during the risible Barr hearings.
The major reason: The Democrats want to posture over antitrust and then do nothing. The Republicans want to posture over bias and then do nothing.
It’s not Grand Guignol but it’s a dumb show nevertheless.
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