Donna Edwards: Most of the People I Know In Congress Can’t Even Operate Twitter

WALLACE: Congresswoman Edwards, I want to pick up on the last point that Chuck made, and that is, isn’t there a legitimate concern — and on this populist issue about companies, whether it’s Google or FaceBook or Twitter or Amazon, these huge companies that have so much power and so much money and so much influence?

EDWARDS: Well, I mean, but the concern, I think, is really misplaced because if you look at these entities, every time there, you know, is this sort of massive growth in this industry, something else starts up that becomes the next new thing. And we remember when Twitter was the next new thing and Instagram the next new thing. And so I think that the dynamism that’s in the industry allows that to, you know, to create an environment where, you know, you can have a lot of different kinds of voices in there. And I think if anything is getting in the way of it in terms of the government, I think it’s saying, you know, this — these decisions around net neutrality because then that makes it even more difficult for conservative or even, you know, far left views to get into the mainstream if you’re put on this secondary highway.

So — but the idea that the government should have the — the — the ability to figure out what the search engine is, I don’t think so. I mean most of the people I know in Congress can’t even operate their Twitter handle.

WALLACE: I am remaining silent in this conversation. I’m — I’m a luddite, which go to Google and look up what it means.

Thank you panel. See you next Sunday.