The tech billionaires are wielding their massive wealth and power to lobby for sweetheart deals and generous government contracts. Their technology affects every aspect of our daily lives and these oligarchs are acting with little regard for the general public. Their focus, along with every industry, is the desire for maximal profit regardless of harm done to the public.

We need to drag these tech CEOs before Congress and expose them. As a former Silicon Valley software engineer, I will be able to ask these CEOs questions that our current Congress is incapable of. It is embarrassing to watch the questions asked by our representatives who barely know the difference between TikTok and Instagram let alone how the technology actually works and its increasingly negative impacts on society.

I don’t claim to be all knowing but I am capable of asking informed questions about recommendation algorithms, monopolization of markets, regulating companies as utilities rather than platforms under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and more. I can also anticipate the deflections these CEOs will use to avoid answering questions and I won’t get confused when they start using technical terms. I can hold their feet to the fire in a way no other representative would be able to. Software runs our lives, so we need someone in office who understands it.