- This Congress is ill-equipped to understand tech, much less hold it accountable. As long as the people are happy, Congress is happy.
- Lord knows the people are ill-equipped to get how bad this is. They already watched this company allow a rogue employee to shut off the account of the President of the United States (before they chose to do it as policy; https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/02...) and watched this company deploy a username-to-telephone lookup service publicly where they'd intended to deploy a security protocol (https://www.ghacks.net/2022/08/08/twitter-confirms-that-a-da...). The public doesn't understand why they should care.
- The only group who could really hold Twitter accountable are shareholders, but why should they care if the public and Congress don't? The money will roll in either way.
Unless they've managed to commit an SEC violation (in which case, slap on the wrist incoming), there are no consequences for this kind of bad behavior until someone powerful gets seriously hurt. I'm glad Mudge is doing the right thing, but extremely pessimistic much will come of it. My recommendation is to shed Twitter as a user.