In a show of bipartisanship outrage at a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham castigated the CEOs of Big Tech companies for their failure to protect children online.
Durbin, D-Ill., the panel’s chairman, didn’t hold back. At the Jan. 31 hearing, he alleged that the CEOs of Meta (parent company of Facebook and Instagram), TikTok, Snapchat, Discord and X (formerly Twitter) are in a “constant pursuit of profit over basic safety that puts our kids at risk.”
He went on to warn that “social media and messaging apps have given predators powerful new tools to sexually exploit children.”
The Department of Justice defines child sexual abuse material as “sexually explicit images or videos of a child’s abuse, rape, molestation and/or exploitation.” It’s already a scourge, but with artificial…
