Will these Senate hearings be theater only, like previous ones with large corporations and the government? Where is the action and what laws are improving these situations?
Until society and governments considers mental health as equal to physical health (improving, but still working on it) I don’t see any government acting to curb online environments in the same way tobacco companies were dealt with.
It’s easy to show a photo or X-ray of a diseased lung and see damaged caused by smoking. It’s not as easy to convey the emotional damage caused by depression, until it’s unfortunately too late.
All Senate hearings seem like theater in the present.
Personally, when i look back at archives from the past and either read the record or watch the recorded hearings from say, the 2008 financial crisis, does it show that it is a little more than that.
It is a forum to voice these positions that are ideally meant for us as a society to learn from.
Politics being politics, it has turned into a forum to raise issues and a sinkhole for precious legislative time.
It’s easy to show a photo or X-ray of a diseased lung and see damaged caused by smoking. It’s not as easy to convey the emotional damage caused by depression, until it’s unfortunately too late.