angdraug, 1 month ago

@caseynewton There's something you seem to not understand about Cantwell. Read this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/13/congress-maria-cantwell-online-privacy/

caseynewton, 1 month ago

@angdraug this is an old story I put in the newsletter when it came out. she has since endorsed the bill

angdraug, 1 month ago

@caseynewton If you have read it, why would you take anything Cantwell says about what she's going to do at face value? There's a pattern of her sabotaging tech regulation bills after endorsing them. This one, she didn't even cosponsor. Just look at the list of her top campaign contributors from OpenSecrets, that alone is enough to tell you whether or not she wants to open the Pandora's box of evaluating the national security threats posed by the big tech.

But many aides said the episode was part of a pattern: Cantwell would publicly criticize other members’ tech initiatives, take umbrage at lawmakers leading them in her stead, and then either let the push fizzle or quash it behind closed doors. “Legislation would be worked on for months, hours and hours and hours of staff time would be invested, member conversations would be had, and then all of the sudden things would go in a completely different direction,” said a former Senate aide.
Top contributors: AIPAC, T-Mobile, Microsoft, Amazon, AT&T, United Airlines.

TheDailyBurble, 1 month ago

@caseynewton
Might be more a bunch of freeloaders are horrified people should be rewarded for their time and attention. This might be a crude implementation but omg what if that caught on! Shock horror! Actually paying people? Entire economies would crumble!