Thread by @rashadrobinson

Tomorrow, I’ll be testifying in front of the House @EnergyCommerce committee about #Section230 — talking about how to make #BigTech liable for the problems they cause instead of making all of us pay for it.
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I want to thank the Committee of Energy and Commerce for holding this hearing and introducing the Justice Against Malicious Algorithms Act, the Safe Tech Act, and the Civil Rights Modernization Act, each one of which is crucial for addressing the harms wrought by #BigTech.

The tech industry doesn't get to have its own rules. Like with any industry: self-regulation always turns out to mean no regulation, and unregulated corporations makes our problems worse, not better.

Yet, the more power the Big Tech corporations gain, the less they are regulated, the less they are liable for the harm they cause, and the less they are held accountable for the decisions they make.

Today's #BigTech business model is completely at odds with our safety and well-being: they generate the biggest profit by causing the biggest harm.

And time and again, we’ve seen that the harm disproportionately impacts Black and brown people, LGBTQ+ communities, women and girls. And they force marginalized people to pay for the damage they cause.

Every day, Big Tech corporations increase the number of people in our country who believe racial and ethnic violence is a solution, not a problem, and every day, they increase the number of businesses in our country who practice discrimination and systematically exploit consumers

I’ll be talking to Congress about what real solutions look like — most importantly, the line between fake solutions and real solutions.

#BigTech would like nothing more than for Congress to pass policies that mimic their own fake solutions: ineffective, profit-at-all-costs polices. But that’s not what we’re here to do.

We’re here to pass and enforce laws that guarantee safety and freedom for Black people — whether spending time online or dealing with the consequences of what happens there.

If we don't act now, the very technology that was supposed to take us into the future will continue dragging us backward and into the past.