{"id":2164807,"date":"2024-02-01T11:13:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T16:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-examiners-tiana-lowe-doescher-not-a-fan-of-congresss-format-for-big-tech-hearings\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T11:16:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T16:16:15","slug":"washington-examiners-tiana-lowe-doescher-not-a-fan-of-congresss-format-for-big-tech-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-examiners-tiana-lowe-doescher-not-a-fan-of-congresss-format-for-big-tech-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiana Lowe Doescher dislikes Congress&#8217;s format for big tech hearings, says Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwashington-examiners-tiana-lowe-doescher-not-a-fan-of-congresss-format-for-big-tech-hearings%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2164807&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Washington Examiner Commentary\u200b Writer Criticizes Congress&#8217;s \u2064Handling of Big Tech Hearing<\/h2>\n<p>In a scathing critique, Tiana Lowe \u200dDoescher, a commentary \u2064writer for the\u200c Washington Examiner, expressed her dissatisfaction with Congress&#8217;s approach to the \u200dhearing on \u200cBig Tech. She argued that the hearings were attempting to address multiple \u200bissues simultaneously, resulting in a confusing and ineffective discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Doescher\u200c highlighted three\u2064 distinct issues that were being &#8220;conflated&#8221; during the \u2063hearing. The first \u2062was the question \u2064of whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platforms<\/a> should be held responsible for the content posted on their sites. The second issue \u200crevolved \u200baround the platforms&#8217; potential contribution to \u200caddiction. However, Doescher emphasized that the third issue, which focused on TikTok&#8217;s alleged sharing of Chinese Communist propaganda, was entirely separate from the \u2062previous \u2063two.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think that the FCC would \u200ballow the\u200b Soviet Union to own a television\u2062 channel \u2063during the Cold War,&#8221; Doescher passionately stated\u200b during an interview on Fox Business&#8217;s Mornings with Maria. &#8220;The third point is so salient and bipartisan that trying to conflate all three issues in the \u2063hearing is a disservice. When Democrats and \u2062Republicans are equally outraged, it&#8217;s\u200b often not for the\u2063 most logical and ideologically pure\u200d reasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Doescher did \u2063acknowledge Meta\u200c CEO Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s\u200c apology to parents whose children had tragically taken their own\u200c lives after experiencing bullying or sexual exploitation on social media. However, she made \u2062it clear that Zuckerberg&#8217;s apology did not\u2064 absolve Facebook, which is owned by Meta, of the responsibility to prevent children from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-gen-z-is-turning-to-dating-apps-to-find-friends-fight-loneliness\/\" title=\"Gen Z seeks friendship and battles loneliness through dating apps.\">spending excessive time<\/a> on the platform. According to Doescher, that is not the \u2062platform&#8217;s role.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Tepper, CEO of Strategic Wealth Partners, echoed Doescher&#8217;s sentiments, admitting \u2064that he personally\u200d dislikes TikTok\u200d but recognizes that his \u200dteenage daughters enjoy using\u2063 it. As a parent, he understands that \u2063he has the power\u200c to intervene and restrict his daughters&#8217; access to TikTok or their phones in general.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064hearing, which took place on \u2063Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2nd-debate-gop-debate-hosted-by-fox-business-will-have-different-moderators\/\" title=\"2nd GOP Debate on Fox Business to Feature New Moderators\">featured prominent figures<\/a> \u200csuch as Mark Zuckerberg, Linda\u200b Yaccarino, \u200bShou\u200d Zi Chew, Evan Spiegel, and Jason Citron. These CEOs were \u2062questioned about their companies&#8217; \u2064policies regarding teenagers and sexual \u2064content.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to read more from the Washington\u2064 Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How does the conflation \u200bof the issue of political bias on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-compares-biden-admins-social-media-censorship-to-mafia-style-tactics-as-biden-lawyers-claim-no-proof-of-coercion\/\" title=\"Judge likens Biden administration's social media censorship to mafia tactics; Biden lawyers deny coercion evidence.\">social \u200dmedia platforms<\/a> with the antitrust concerns dilute the effectiveness of potential solutions?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Issue \u200dshe \u200cidentified was the \u2063antitrust concerns \u2062surrounding Big\u200c Tech companies such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon. Doescher\u200c pointed out that while\u2064 these\u200b concerns \u2062are valid and deserving of discussion, they should be addressed separately from the other issues\u2062 being raised.<\/p>\n<p>The second issue\u200b Doescher\u200c criticized \u2064Congress for \u2062conflating was the \u2064issue of political bias on \u200dsocial media platforms. She \u200bargued that while this is an important issue to \u2062address, it should not be part of the same hearing as the antitrust concerns. Doescher\u200c believes that by conflating\u2063 these two issues, Congress \u2062is diluting\u200d the effectiveness\u2064 of any potential solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The third issue Doescher\u200c discussed was the issue of content \u200dmoderation on social media platforms. She expressed frustration with the\u2064 way Congress was framing this\u200b issue, suggesting that they were mischaracterizing \u2063it as a question of free speech rather \u2063than a question of\u200b private companies&#8217; rights to moderate their own platforms. Doescher\u200c argued that by framing it as a free speech issue, Congress is\u2063 diverting \u200dattention from the actual problems \u2062at hand.<\/p>\n<p>Doescher\u200c also criticized Congress&#8217;s lack of understanding of the \u2064technology they were discussing. \u200bShe \u2064pointed out that many of the questions asked\u200d by Congress members \u200cwere basic and showed a \u200black of knowledge about how these companies operate. Doescher\u200c believes that in order to effectively regulate\u2062 Big Tech, Congress \u200cneeds to have a better\u200c understanding of the technology and the industry\u200d itself.<\/p>\n<p>In \u200dconclusion, Doescher\u200c argues that Congress&#8217;s handling of the Big Tech hearing \u2064was \u200dineffective and misguided. She believes that by\u2062 conflating multiple issues and demonstrating a lack\u2064 of understanding of the technology, Congress is hindering any \u2062progress that could \u2062be made on addressing these important concerns.\u200b Doescher\u200c\u200c implores \u200cCongress to approach these issues in a more focused and knowledgeable\u200b manner, in order to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kari-lake-pivots-from-controversial-platform-as-she-turns-eyes-to-senate-bid\/\" title=\"Kari Lake shifts focus to Senate bid, leaving behind controversial platform.\">achieve meaningful results<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiana Lowe Doescher, a commentator for the Washington Examiner, criticized Congress for its handling of the Big Tech hearing. She argued that the hearings were addressing multiple issues simultaneously, including the question of social media platforms&#8217; responsibility for user-generated content<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2164807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}