If it wasn’t for Brett Kavanaugh Thunderdome in the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, the national conversation surrounding social media rules of the road would have entirely consumed America’s attention. And rightly so.
Social media titans Sheryl Sandberg from Facebook and Jack Dorsey from Twitter came to the Hill and faced heavy criticisms and hard questions from both chambers of Congress. As you’d expect, the questions were primarily technically and legally oriented: What constitutes free speech and the public sphere? What policing do you do of the content you post, curate, and allow to be seen? What are your obligations to the customer and the marketplace?
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