As plenty of reporters noted as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was grilled by Congress Tuesday, a lot of the legislators seemed to be reading questions written by their much younger and more tech-savvy staffers.
That inspired Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan to offer up this take on Congress trying to regulate things it doesn’t understand:
Members of Congress can’t possibly regulate Facebook. They don’t understand it. ….My column on Zuckerberg's Congressional testimony https://t.co/AHN09YBfqh
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) April 10, 2018
Hmm … that sounds like it could apply to a lot of things:
now do guns https://t.co/JQpSDbHDem
— James Taranto (@jamestaranto) April 11, 2018
Hey Marge…..does this apply to guns? https://t.co/od9U3LxnZ5
— KanyeCoding101Twitty (@10uhseejed) April 11, 2018
Now do firearms.
This is how we feel every time the issue comes up. https://t.co/71DEl7wOSL
— Back Off, War Child (@silver_shots) April 11, 2018
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/984097895971516424
Been saying this about guns… You can't legislate what you don't understand. https://t.co/i4Hen3WtBh
— KeithTheTriple (@keiththetriple) April 12, 2018
I, too, believe that Congress should not be regulating guns. https://t.co/x3ig7KCimn
— Eric Spencer (@JustEric) April 11, 2018
Can you just change facebook to guns… and not let idiots who have NO clue about firearms try to regulate it. https://t.co/UGxXzeAV95
— Jon B (@DROCNCPF_Guy) April 11, 2018
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Now apply this same line of logic to the regulation of guns. Or is it now "gunsplaining"? https://t.co/obG054Y0Kr
— Michael (@Michael2014abc) April 11, 2018
Hahahahaha! This is the same media that was whining that people didn't need to know a damn thing about firearms to regulate those right?
Stop Facebooksplaining ? https://t.co/8minRIiMR5
— Persnickety (@Dawnsfire) April 11, 2018
In fact, it is the same newspaper that ran a piece on how gun owners who know the difference between a clip and a magazine are guilty of “gunsplaining” to those who want legislation written to ban AR-15s and other “weapons of war.”
"Look, stop your internetsplaining! We don't need to know anything to regulate it! We just got some small details wrong!"- If media talked about everything the way they talk about guns. https://t.co/KfJDkPH380
— The Crazee™ Code ? (@Crazizzle) April 11, 2018
To all of the millennials who were grumbling that a bunch of geriatric senators had no idea what they were trying to regulate yesterday and didn't even know the right questions to ask: that is how gun owners feel during every gun control debate. https://t.co/8B5esDXovB
— James Hasson (@JamesHasson20) April 11, 2018
Congress knows less about guns than social media, sunshine. That never stopped them from attacking #2A. https://t.co/GDHqclMdS0
— JG (@JohnG405) April 11, 2018
Wait, Congress shouldn't regulate things they don't understand? Where has this argument been my entire life? https://t.co/KyFWa88hBg
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) April 11, 2018
Now do guns, climate, health care, finance, environment….. https://t.co/iV8VAmWKc5
— BTME (@btme87) April 11, 2018
https://twitter.com/ninthhostage/status/984102731802726400
https://twitter.com/Sam_5thEstate/status/984217311023370243
https://twitter.com/instapundit/status/984163752814653440
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'I understand guns': Fact-checker wants metal tubes that fire little metal bits fastest banned first https://t.co/91EqSqvu6f
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 12, 2018
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