We’ll just add this to the imagine-if-a-Republican-had-said-this-file, because Dem Rep. Steve Cohen complaining to Sundar Pichai, Google’s Indian-born CEO, that he has trouble understanding tech support reps he calls on the phone is freaking priceless:
Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen complains to Indian-born Google CEO Sundar Pichai: I call tech support & get somebody I can’t understand. #GoogleHearing pic.twitter.com/gj3PGxaQrS
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) December 11, 2018
Bonus? We really liked when Rep. Cohen called Google’s search engine an “apparatus” and his idea for Google to create an online school that a Google phone rep can walk a user through to learn how to turn on and off the different location/privacy functions:
Rep. Cohen suggests an online school for people to figure out how to set privacy settings on their mobile devices. #googlehearing
— Gopal Ratnam (@g_ratnam) December 11, 2018
Cohen also suggested that Google favors conservative news sites like the Daily Caller over MSNBC:
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) questions Google CEO about what he believes to be unsatisfactory search results when he Googles himself: "I put my name in here, Rep. Steve Cohen, I punch news. This weekend, I was on MSNBC four times. The first thing that comes up is the Daily Caller." pic.twitter.com/voI4odrsn8
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) December 11, 2018
Tech illiteracy is not a good look:
i really like the self-own of congressmen being like "every time i search for myself all i see is really bad news!"
— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) December 11, 2018
The fact that people so freaking clueless about technology are making laws to govern technology companies is pretty terrifying:
Rep. Steve Cohen wants to know why his MSNBC appearances don't appear higher in Google search results… pic.twitter.com/n85Gwcf2Wh
— Kurt Wagner (@KurtWagner8) December 11, 2018
Does anyone asking questions actually understand what’s going on?
The Google hearing is making me cringe so so hard. How is the US Congress so terribly unequipped to ask any questions worth their own salt #GoogleHearing
— Wafa Ben-Hassine (@ousfourita) December 11, 2018
Almost every question has a misunderstanding embedded in it. It’s making my head explode. Imagine what it’s doing to @sundarpichai’s. #GoogleHearing
— Nicholas Thompson (@nxthompson) December 11, 2018
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BUSTED! Emails show Google employees tried to block ads from this Conservative outlet claiming ‘hate speech’ https://t.co/4UyxTIbsBa
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 11, 2018
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