Raser’s Edge: You
see, Grandpa, this is how you log in…
Here’s what happened. During the election campaign, the Republicans
got information gathered by Cambridge Analytical that it got from facebook and
used it to support Trump. When this was
revealed, Chicken Little started running around screaming “The sky is falling!”
Well of course we had to have Congressional
Hearings so our politicians could huff and puff on camera and show just how
tough and serious they are about social media sharing your information.
Many of them took the opportunity to demonstrate their
pomposity and how dumb they are regarding social medial
If you watched the senate hearing, and I did watch a lot of
it since it was raining that day, it made me think of a tolerant grand kid
patiently trying to explain modern technological
life to a bunch of old white-haired grandpas.
There were many “senior moments” for the senators like when Orin Hatch
asked how facebook could make money selling people’s private information. Zuckerberg politely pointed out that they
don’t sell people’s information, they sell advertising.
It’s too bad our Congress can’t run our government as
successfully as Mark Zuckerberg runs facebook.
