My hope is that something actually happens. Mudge has testified to CONgress before and is well respected. His testimony was damning. I'm rewatching it now to see which bombshells are important. I couldn't watch it all earlier because of meetings I had.
Both parties brought up some good stuff, like the hackers a few years ago that took over Obama's and Biden's accounts for a crypto scheme, the amount of data Twitter has and the sheer amount of employees that can easily access that data, and the lack of regulations on a platform that can have national security ramifications. Mudge scared the hell out of many of them with valid and easy-to-understand cyber issues including hacking, foreign agents, CCP influence, a lack of centralized logging, etc. He even dumbed stuff down so the Senators could understand.
I think this will lead to changes. They will end up getting massive fines (I'm gonna guess between 100 and 500 million dollars). I think they will get hammered with audits. I also think this could lead to a Twitter shutdown while issues get fixed. The fact that they don't have a dev environment to test anything is just stupid. They do everything in production. I also think there will be a board shakeup or at least a new CEO.
This could become one of the very few CONgressional hearings that was actually worth the time and money to have. I do wish each senator would get 10 minutes instead of 6. That would keep some of them from feeling rushed and missing good follow-up from the witness. Especially when so many of them have no idea about much of the stuff being discussed.
I would like to see text transcripts of the hearing, but I suggest if you have time go watch the hearing at This Link.
My hope is that something actually happens. Mudge has testified to CONgress before and is well respected. His testimony was damning. I'm rewatching it now to see which bombshells are important. I couldn't watch it all earlier because of meetings I had.
Both parties brought up some good stuff, like the hackers a few years ago that took over Obama's and Biden's accounts for a crypto scheme, the amount of data Twitter has and the sheer amount of employees that can easily access that data, and the lack of regulations on a platform that can have national security ramifications. Mudge scared the hell out of many of them with valid and easy-to-understand cyber issues including hacking, foreign agents, CCP influence, a lack of centralized logging, etc. He even dumbed stuff down so the Senators could understand.
I think this will lead to changes. They will end up getting massive fines (I'm gonna guess between 100 and 500 million dollars). I think they will get hammered with audits. I also think this could lead to a Twitter shutdown while issues get fixed. The fact that they don't have a dev environment to test anything is just stupid. They do everything in production. I also think there will be a board shakeup or at least a new CEO.
This could become one of the very few CONgressional hearings that was actually worth the time and money to have. I do wish each senator would get 10 minutes instead of 6. That would keep some of them from feeling rushed and missing good follow-up from the witness. Especially when so many of them have no idea about much of the stuff being discussed.
I would like to see text transcripts of the hearing, but I suggest if you have time go watch the hearing at This Link.