Congress’s focus on content moderation has distracted it from the larger problem

Google Global Head of Intellectual Property Policy Katherine Oyama listens during a hearing with the House Communications and Technology and House Commerce Subcommittees on Capitol Hill on Wednesday in Washington, DC.| Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images What stays up on the internet, and what comes down? It’s a defining question of the age — and the subject of yesterday’s newsletter — and on Wednesday, it came to Congress.
The occasion was a hearing of the House Energy an