Columbia law school, an expert on antitrust, copyright and Communications Law and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, including the master switch in the curse of bigness. Professor wu has twice been part of the politico list of 50 individuals transforming american politics and was named to the American Academy of arts and sciences in 2017. He received his bachelors of science from mcgill university. Fiona scott morton, a professor at the University School of management. Nationally recognized as a leading scholar and published articles in leading economic journals. From 2011 to 2012 she served as Deputy Assistant attorney general at the United States department of justice where she helped enforce the nations antitrust laws. The third witness on our panel is stacy mitchell, codirector of the institute for local self reliance. She spent years working with policymakers and grassroots organizations to help develop city, state, and federal policies to strengthen independent
The subcommittee will come to order. I again want to apologize to our witnesses. This is historic action on the house floor that has taken a number of Committee Members away from the committee. But i would like to get started. Our second panel of witnesses, the first witness on our second panel is timothy wu, the julius silver professor of law at columbia law school, an expert on antitrust, copyright and Communications Law and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, including the master switch in the curse of bigness. Professor wu has twice been part of the politico list of 50 individuals transforming american politics and was named to the American Academy of arts and sciences in 2017. He received his bachelors of science from mcgill university. Fiona scott morton, a professor at the University School of management. Nationally recognized as a leading scholar and published articles in leading economic journals. From 2011 to 2012 she served as Deputy Assistant attorney gene
Good afternoon. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to the second of our series of hearings investigating competition in the Digital Markets. This one on innovation and entrepreneurship. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. 30 years ago the First Software for the worldwide member was released into the Public Domain to create a Global Communications network. Within a few years, search and browsing services were built onto this software to give people tools to communicate, share, and explore information through decentralized platform that was designed to be open and nondiscriminatory. An internet pioneer and codesigner of the internets early architecture testified in 2006 on behalf of google that the overarches principle of the open internet was no central gatekeeper should exert control over the internet. As he noted this open and competitive environment meant ent
david: as secretary of state, your job was to go around and get the coalition put together. james: it was a textbook example of the w to fight a war. david: what was the reason you were so successful? james: lucky. woman: would you fix your tie, please? david: well, people wouldn t recognize mef my tie was fixed, but ok. i ll just le this way. all right. david: i don t consider myself a journalist, and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began e on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private eqty firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? david: do you miss the days when everything you diwas in the front pages and everything you were doing was making world policy, or are you quite happy with what you re doing now? james: i only miss not having been re-electein 92 because i think we were getting a lot of things done, and i think ld have continued doing some things. but i have to tell you, life
david: as secretary of state, your job was to go around and get the coalition put together. james: it was a textbook example of the way to fight a war. davit was the reason you were so successful? james: lucky. woman: would you fix your tie, please? david: well, people wouldn t recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. i ll just leave itway. all right. david: i don t consider myself a journalist, and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to tak the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? david: do you miss the days when everything you did was or are you quite happy with what you re doi now? james: i only miss not having been re-elected in 92 because i think we were getting a lot of things done, and i think we coue continued doing some things. but i have to tell you, life after politics is pretty damn good. [laughter] you re your own boss, y