Four of the country’s major social media firms are slow-walking information requests from the Jan. 6 Committee, the panel said on Thursday in a series of subpoenas to the firms.
It’s about time to hold Marky Mark’s feet to the fire!
Gotta start hauling thier execs into hearings, they don’t want to have to do it so that might get then to tell people to stop dragging their feet.
I hope they were just waiting to get subpoenas so they could tell MAGAts “Our hands were tired” and are now prepared to fork over.
(Trump and Russia hijack social media)
GOP: “We love social media!”
(Social media ban Trump)
GOP: “We hate social media!”
(Social media slow walk January 6 investigation)
GOP: “We love social media!”
Give it five minutes; it’ll change again.
This is about how many months past due?
I know what the situation is: This is the Post Truth Era.
When I was a younger man, I was told that we were in the Information Age.
We have made strides in things we can do, but evil, greed, $$$$$ and corruption can cancel out those strides.
Yes they do…and that (the aforementioned four horsemen) is cancel culture for me.
I look forward to hearing Zuck the Schmuk et al. plead the Fifth.
Public televised hearings on social media’s involvement in the insurrection, where they won’t have any R’s carrying water for them on the 1/6 committee.
Anyway he cant go around posting stupid videos of himself on his electric surfboard I consider a win.
While they are at it, they should also question them for the damage they are doing worldwide, it’s not like it’s unique to the US, and they have even less safeguards elsewhere.
No surprise, they are the ones who enabled this to happen thru their software
That could have been resolved months ago with a counsel-to-counsel phone call. This looks like actual foot-dragging.
Is it possible there were such phone calls, and the companies said “We’d really like a subpoena to wave for the nutjobs who are making us piles of money”?
I am not an attorney. But I cannot imagine any sophisticated attorney on the planet who would NOT advise the Social Media companies to stonewall. Given that there is no downside to refusing to supply subpoenaed documents and materials, why would they risk alienating the fascists who are likely control all three branches in 2024? Simply put, the Democrat strategy is failing precisely because there is no enforcement mechanism behind it. Subpoenas mean nothing. Indictments mean nothing.
"Soon after, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) directed the firms not to comply, saying that a Republican majority would “not forget.”
Sounds like post-Mar a Lago visit McCarthy. I liked January 6/7 McCarthy marginally better.
And yet the GOP is so antisocial! They always have to get their way or they throw such nasty tantrums! Just look at the insurrection! Wha-Wha-Wha!!! Such big babies! All of them!
This is so fun. When it comes to the social media platforms, my attitude might best be described as something close to when Morrison and Hendrix got together and Morrison, obviously cosmically shitfaced, was screaming “Fuck her in the ass” over and over over Jimi noodling about.
So yeah, fuck them in the ass, J6 Committee. Fuck them in the ass. The only thing that could be more fun is if we get to watch Twitter and Facebook and the others referred to DOJ for criminal contempt of Congress.
If they just wanted the cover of a subpoena before producing documents, that could have happened months ago. This is pretty clearly just foot-dragging.
My hands often get tired, too. I sympathize. 