Will come to work. Welcome todays hearing on the oversight of the general trade commission. On extended a welcome and thank you for appearing. You will all appear roughly this morning. Include fcc chairman joe simons, and noah phillips. Commissioner chopra pretty commissioner Christine Wilson and rebecca slaughter. Cc the established in 1914. Under federal trade commission act. The fcc is chiefly responsible for protecting consumers from unfair, or fraudulent Business Practices in the marketplace. This includes protecting consumers privacy, and security of the data. And harmful uses of technology in combating deceptive advertising and illegal protocols. The fcc is also responsible for educating consumers about fraudulent activity, and predatory Business Practices and Consumer Education is an essential part of their mission. And its intended to inform customer choices help prevent americans from falling victim to fraudsters, cyber criminals another bad actors. And recently discussed and
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What will it mean for the video platform and us chinese fallacious. And proving youre never too old to learn we need to 96 year old world war 2 veteran who has finished top of his friend to her she climbs. A michael ok welcome to the program here in germany the number of corona virus infections has soared in recent days the countrys leading Public Health institute is warning that people are letting down their guard and not observing social distancing measures maybe its ironic that that in central grooming today thousands of people have been out on the streets protesting against coronavirus Restrictions Police force organizers to call off part of the event early and strict hygiene and. Just were not being that here to the demonstrators who are still there are being told to put on masks and keep their distance or simply go home. Political correspondent later in the sun hum a shiny eased out to protest and she joins me now so laney as we were talking before i mean this protest has been ca
Investigation looking at whether they have achieved such a major monopoly that they are now legally stifling their much smaller competitors because of the crown of virus pandemic these testimonies are being carried out virtually and the line up includes the c. E. O. s of alba betting Google Facebook apple and amazon now each of these companies have been accused of manipulating their platforms and search results to promote their own products and interests google users know that any time they search for a product the 1st several results are typically advertisements but today the topic of conversation included how google has benefited from those results. What is the value of the part that you do use the google ads form and its a substantial part of your business whats the actual going 2cb3cb. Of revenue its i dont 100100 plus 1000000000. 00 but thats a lot of money mr. Now facebook was quick to defend its size and its acquisition of instagram and whats up by claiming china is also looking
All testified before congress a year long probe into that process and. 10 you look at some of the damages and the pandemic lets call it spend one we have a lot to get through so lets get started. On one day 4 of the most powerful men in the United States Tech Industry theyre being questioned on whether their platforms have violated antitrust laws in recent years as theyve risen to dominate the internet now arties Rachel Blevins joins us with the latest rachel what have we heard so far was there as we saw c. E. O. s from the 4 Largest Tech Companies in the country testified before the house judiciary antitrust subcommittee as part of an investigation looking at whether they have achieved such a major monopoly that they are now illegally stifling their much smaller competitors because of the crown of virus pandemic these testimonies are being carried out virtually and the line up includes the c. E. O. s of all the betting Google Facebook apple and amazon now each of. These companies have