Line item 1 consent calendar receive and file action. Sfpd dpa document protocol, quarter 13. Request the chief of police to accept a donation from the Police Association for use of the sfpd Wilderness Program accept a gift of 5,000 from the children of deceased officer blackwell for use of the gym equipment for the northern station. Thank you. Can i have a motion on those two items together . Is there a second . To watch a presentation regarding sergeant blackwell gift. All right. Lets see if theres a second yet. I do. Okay. Now we are ready for the presentation and well take Public Comment. Okay. Thank you. Should be on. Thank you commissioners chief scott. Im the commander officer the captain of the northern policization station. I want to thank you for police station. I want to thank you for allowing us to make this request. Blackwell was a sergeant at Northern Police station. He was taken from us far too son but he was wellrespected among men and women of Northern Police station.
Executives from google testify testifying the company censorship policy. We also hear from andy parker the father of the journalist who was killed on live tv and a conservative communicator said that google and youtube try to restrict video content for texas sanity senator ted cruz chaired the hearing. This hearing is called to order. Good afternoon. Let me say to folks i apologize the hearing was delayed in our start time. The series of votes on the senate or the just concluded so welcome to our witnesses. This past april the subcommittee held a hearing on social media bias with witnesses from ace books and twitter. As i noted then any inquiry into big tax censorship practices must take an especially hard look at google. Thats what we are doing here today. Googles control over what people hear, watch read and say is unprecedented. Almost 90 of internet searches in the United States use google. Googles domination of the Search Engine market is so complete that to google is now a common
Threehour hearing. This hearing is called to order. Good afternoon. Let me say to folks are attending i apologize the hearing was delayed in our start time. We had a series of votes on a singapore that just concluded and so welcome. Welcome to our witnesses. This past april the subcommittee held a hearing on social media buys with witnesses from facebook and twitter. As i noted then, in inquiry into big tech censorship practices must take an especially hard look at google. Thats what were doing here today. Googles control over what people here, watch, read, and say is unprecedented. Almost 90 of internet searches in the United States use google. Google domination of the Search Engine market is so complete that, to google, is now a commonplace. With that market power, google can and often does control our discourse. And sometimes Tech Companies talk about their products and the effects of those products as though their forces outside of big text control. As weve heard time and time agai
Ask if there are additional Public Comment and anyone may come up at that time. With that in mind, youre going to hear two bells. The first one is going to tell you, you have 30 seconds left. The second one means youre at time. So with that, this is the june 20th meeting of the recreation and park commission. I ask that you turn off any sound or devices that may go off during the meeting and you take any secondary conversations outside. If you would like to speak on an item today as i said earlier, we request, but do not require that you complete a blue card and commissioner how many minute . How many people want to testify . That helps me make this next decision. Lets do 2 minutes. Okay. Each person will have 2 minutes on each item of Public Comment today. If there is an item of interest to you not on the agenda is under the jurisdiction of the commission, you may speak under item 4 and continued again on item 10. When you address your comments to the commission, please address they w
Im not saying it was wrong to stop and look at this. Thats okay. And its also okay to see if it particularly talk about getting it into a broader realm then it was. Now by taking this on, you are looking like youre going to be the leaders. I mean, thats theres 11 of you. And none of you have executive office, but thats the way its being presented. I dont think thats going to happen, partly because this is much bigger than the city and county of San Francisco. Always has been. And one of the speakers talked about connectivity. Connectivity to bart, connectivity to caltrain, connectivity to 40 bus lines in the east bay. Connectivity to five muni lines. These are not just putting it downtown, its much bigger than that. So in these leaderships, somebody already said that, it really needs some kind of political push. Theres been a lot of us here who have been pushing this i hate to tell you how long since ive been pushing this idea, a long time. Peskin will remember norm rolf died in 2005 a