Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out

Re:Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out by jmyeet on Thursday July 21, 2022 @02:29PM (#32182967)

To be clear, my argument isn't firing him was right or wrong. My argument was that Republicans are willing to bend, change or just completely ignore rules when it suits them. Republicans talk about institutions when it suits them and don't when it doesn't. Democrats largely are LARPing in a world that doesn't exist of civilized debate.

My argument more simply is that Democrats should be more like Republicans. Not in policy issues but in terms of effectiveness: whipping votes, advancing an agenda and punishing dissent.

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Re:Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out by acheron on Thursday July 21, 2022 @06:56PM (#32186263)

If you talk to a Republican supporter they will say the same thing about their side, that the useless Republican politicians in Congress won’t stand up to the Democrats and actually accomplish anything, and the Democrats are full of dirty tricks that the Republicans just roll over for, and so on.

For both parties it’s partially right and partially wrong, but what it’s not is anything unique or inherent to one side.

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