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Congress, Far From ‘a Series of Tubes,’ Is Still Nowhere Near Reining In Tech



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“It’s not a trick question,” Mr. Poe blustered. “You know, you make $100 million a year, you ought to be able to answer that question.”Updated Dec. 10, 2021, 8:09 p.m. ETIt wasn’t entirely a confused question: Google maps and other services are available on iPhones, and location tracking by Google services is a serious concern for privacy advocates. But on social media and in some media reports, Mr. Poe was ridiculed for his apparent confusion over Apple and Google technologies.The fumbles were bipartisan, with Representative Steve Cohen, Democrat of Tennessee, describing Google as an “apparatus” and suggesting Mr. Pichai create an online school for users to understand the search engine where they can be assigned a Google representative. But not like the phone customer service at Comcast, he added, where you get put on hold for 30 minutes and “find somebody who you can’t understand.”Another example of boomer Luddite lawmakers stumbling their way around technology, viewers quipped.The belly flops from the hearing room dais helped take the spotlight off the co …

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