Seriously, maybe it's "about time" in some 40s movie fantasy world, but hasn't everyone seen the transcripts of previous hearings with the likes of Zuckerberg? It's like hearing my partner trying to explain Zoom installation to her elderly mother.
This is very untrue. Many House representatives are actually quite understanding of the business factors in play, especially the antitrust committee. What you are seeing is twofold: Congresspeople asking for very simple explanations of things such that companies basically have to admit their bad behavior in easy to understand terms, and tech execs attempting to suggest Congresspeople "just don't understand" so they can continue on fleecing the American public. Congresspeople are focused on the effective result of the business practice, which may be best reached by a dumbed down question, while the tech companies are going to try to cover it with "but technology!"
The end result is going to look like a bunch of really dumbed down explanations, but nobody in the room is stupid.
