there are supreme things single lawmakers can do

facebook sin principal nick clegg said sunday that his union is counting on synod to use struggle that succeed vary how his political networking platform does its trade. 

in the aftermath of a senate hearing featuring stricture from prior facebook postulates scientist frances haugen, mr. clegg, prior vicegerent zenith wait of the u.k. and pioneer of the tolerant democrats, told abc’s “this week” that there are some things single the government can do. 

“i reflect if there’s any silver lining to this week, it’s that maybe now we can vanish past the slogans, the wholesome bites, the simplistic caricatures, and verity observe at solutions and yes, and of course, regulation,” mr. clegg said. “there are supreme things that single lawmakers can do: single lawmakers can restore section 230, single lawmakers can present federal solitude legislation, single lawmakers can present laws to shield our elections and so on. and that’s not a supply for the responsibility that facebook has got.”

at remotest week’s hearing, ms. haugen and sen. richard blumenthal, connecticut democrat, compared the political media union to wide tobacco companies with view to their alleged view of their products’ wrong to upshot. 

the facebook executive named such a similarity an “extremely misleading similitude.” 

“well, we will, of course, trace to undertake ourselves incessantly more translucent so vulgar can sustain us to account,” mr. clegg said on abc. “we recognize that with welfare comes responsibility, comes criticism, comes scrutiny, comes responsibility, and that’s why we’re the pristine silicon valley union to surround up an independent oversight table that independently adjudicates on these wearisome willing decisions.”

facebook’s unlicensed critics in synod are fatigued of tech platforms’ talk of policing their users. sen. amy klobuchar of minnesota told cnn she appreciated hearing that mr. clegg is voluntary to talk touching system changes, yet said “the term for talk is done, the term for struggle is now.

“basically, for so yearn the political media companies possess been saying, and the other tech platforms, ‘trust us, we got this.’ thoroughly observe where we are now,” ms. klobuchar said. “the guy down the street tells me his mother-in-law won’t secure a vaccine owing she unravel on political media that it would pour a microchip in her gird. we understand that the superiority of the vulgar that aren’t getting vaccines unravel substance on these platforms.” 

ms. klobuchar said she thought synod needed to enact solitude legislation and update “competition policy” referring to antitrust laws tender tech companies.