The chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to our first hearing on Online Platforms and market power, focusing on the free and Diverse Press. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. In recent years, there has been a cascade of competition problems on the internet. Concentration in the Digital Marketing has pushed for journalism to the verge of extension. The acquisitions, growing innovation kills him, and high Network Effects and switching costs, appear to undermine entrepreneurship and startup rates. The sheer dominance of some platforms has resulted in the worst products, significantly less choice, leaving people without a competitive alternative to services that harvest the data, manipulative behavior to monetize her attention. Response to these trends, the committee will commit conduct a bipartisan the purpose of this investigation is to document anticompetitive combat conduct online. Examine and and assess whether the com
Persuasive rather than polarising . Kwame kwei armah, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you so much for having me. It is a great pleasure to have you. Now, youve been in the Theatre Business as an actor, a writer and a director for the best part of three decades. Ijust used that phrase, some would call it a cliche, about the culture wars. Does it feel to you that today there is a somewhat toxic culture war . I think youve framed it beautifully. It is toxic, but most importantly, its disingenuous. In my humble opinion. Its used to kind of create political fear. And ourjob as artists is, i think, fundamentally to take away that fear, to take away the binaries that i think this farce of the culture wars are. You know, i often hear politicians and im not one to diss politicians, but i also often hear politicians use race or class or immigration or use history as a Battering Ram to get themselves into the hearts of the populist. But those issues youve just outlined race, immigration they are centr
Ijust used that phrase, some would call it a cliche, about the culture wars. Does it feel to you that today there is a somewhat toxic culture war . I think youve framed it beautifully. It is toxic, but most importantly, its disingenuous. In my humble opinion. Its used to kind of create political fear. And ourjob as artists is, i think, fundamentally to take away that fear, to take away the binaries that i think this farce of the culture wars are. You know, i often hear politicians and im not one to diss politicians, but i also often hear politicians use race or class or immigration or use history as a Battering Ram to get themselves into the hearts of the populist. But those issues youve just outlined race, immigration they are central to your work, because theyre central to your own life story. Yeah, totally and utterly. But. And have you been frightened off entering this territory at times . Again, i think its framed brilliantly. Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, when im afraid o
Units are pushing kiev troops to the west; in march , five settlements of the dpr and zaporozhye region were liberated from neonazis. Since january, the enemy has lost more than 80 thousand people and 14 thousand weapons, including tanks and other armored vehicles. The kiev regime responds with terrorist attacks on civilians. Despite the lack of results on the line of combat contact , kiev is still trying to convince. His western sponsors, the ability to resist the russian army, for this he is trying to transfer military operations to the territory of our country, resorting to acts of terrorism and shelling of civilians. Our armed forces react asymmetrically to such a crime by ukrainian militants. In march , highprecision weapons and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles carried out 190 group and two massive strikes on ukraine. Military Energy Infrastructure facilities were hit. Another topic of the meeting was the construction of new ships for the navy. To increase the potential of the navy, we co
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