[dellinspiron]

The US government is wholly unprepared to deal with the wicked smart ingenuity of modern corporations. These inquisitions by congress feel like little children running around picking up sticks after a house has burned down. Give up, you've already lost.

[jkestner]

There are representatives who understand modern corporations and are willing to reform the markets as needed — Katie Porter and Ro Khanna come to mind — but market regulation is a bad word in party leadership, whether or not they understand technology.

As far as understanding technology, there used to be an Office of Technology Assessment that would provide the background to Congress, until anti-reality Republicans killed it as the Web was taking off. https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/april-may-june-2019/h...