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road and legislation in policies and infrastructure in place told these companies accountable. the reason why are our cars are safe, and risky bills work is not because of the benevolence of the auto industry, it s because we have infrastructure and consequences when it doesn t actually meet the standard. right now, there are not the proper rules of the road for silicon valley, so the technology that could bring us into the future is dragging us into the past. i think a lot about corporate responsibility, in a moment like this, we ve talked previously about corporations putting out statements in support of voting rights, in the wake of voting restrictions passing in the states, after the 2020 election. what s the corporate hate speech? these companies can condemn hate speech but it did not start with social media platforms. the question is, it is not enough to condemn it if your business model incentivize it,
platforms accountable is because we don t have enough people lined up at the front doors. the companies have spent a lot of money trying to confuse the issue, trying to make us believe that they don t need to be regulated. that they can self-regulate, but self-regulated companies are unregulated companies. the fact of the matter is the reason why your cars are safe, and the seat belts work is not because of the benevolence of the auto industry. it s because there is infrastructure that holds those companies accountable. the reason why when we go into the supermarket our meat and our milk can be safe and we can sort of see the labels is because there is trust in safety and infrastructure behind that. and we actually need those that type of infrastructure to deal with 21st century problems. the technology that can bring us into the future is dragging us into the past. and many people are profiting off of it and would like to play hear no evil speak no evil and see no evil. that s why w
backsliding. he said president obama said, backsliding democracies aren t reserved for far away lands. he sounded, you know, a little bit like chairman bennie thompson and vice chair liz cheney there. yeah. i mean, look, obama probably uniquely situated to talk about this issue because really, modern-day disinformation did kind of start during his time in office. birtherism is kind of the ground zero for this stuff, right? he was subjected to it. and then, of course, the proliferation of these mega online platforms. what i thought was interesting about what he said was essentially what he s saying is we need rules for the road. we can t just rely on the benevolence or the oversight of these ceo of a major social media platform to say, yes, we got to get rid of this because it is hate speech, and no, we keep that because this is more towards journalism. you need to have agreed upon rules of the road. i think that s right. the problem is, we ll never agree upon the rules of the road.