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
Stoxx 600 is negative now, down by less than 2 10 of 1 . The pound is moving relatively aggressively on a number of different things. Theres a reuters report talking about a regime that would allow the continuity of the good friday agreement for the irish border. Emmanuel macron talked about an intelligent solution to the brexit impasse. All of these factors helping the pound get a lift today. I think positioning is also a factor in this. The italian 10 year not budging that much, but keep an eye on it. Reportsla, the suggest, wants a coalition formed by the end of today. Salvini is about to go see the italian president. Vonnie the u. S. Economy does not need lower rates according to Kansas City Fed president Esther George. She spoke with bloombergs Michael Mckee in jackson hole, wyoming. Have a listen. Theer as i look at where economy is, im not ready to begin to provide more accommodation to the economy outlook thats adjusts the economy is getting weaker. Vonnie we are joined now by
We can get going. We have been looking forward to this and those on twitter, we have had a lively sort of prepublickity. So im ann marie slogger, the ceo of new america and i get to moderate this fabulous discussion today and we are here to launch david kayes book, Speech Police, the global struggle to govern the internet and to celebrate consent of the enemyworks which is 201 which was rebecca mckinnons book and a new america book and i was very struck. Ill start with this. When i was reading through the acknowledgments in Speech Police say david you actually say that rebecca and consent of the network, you say few people have had as much influence on my thinking as that book of thought thats wonderful and you have to have written that before you knew we were doing this event, so were going to have a discussion and then well turn it over to you, but i wanted to begin by framing the debate in terms of these two books because i think it says a lot about how the internet has evolved. And
Restarting next week thathelped things in asia. In europe, its a bit of a mixed picture. The dax up by 0. 1 you do see red arrows for both the cac and the ftse the ftse, well talk more about Boris Johnson who will become the Prime Minister there today ftse now down about 0. 8 stocks are flat in italy and in spain. If you check out the treasury yields here in the United States, you will see this morning the tenyear is yielding 2. 057 the big story of the morning, shares of Big Tech Companies like google, amazon and facebook, theyre under pressure after the u. S. Justice Department Said theyre opening a broad antitrust review of Technology Firms the review was scrutinikru desie if these companies are stifling information and harming consumers. The Justice Department does not name specific companies, but it is likely to encompass google, foos facebook this is the real first shot across the bow by william barr and the doj. You know you have the democrats, you have the republicans also afte
Christina. I am thrilled to welcome you to the second event of the 2024 free residential debate series. We are live from new york city. I want to begin by thanking marie for another stunning rendition of our national anthem. And lift every voice and sing. More americans identify as independent than as eit. That is why we want to amplify more voices and choices to encourage discourse choices the voters actually have. Tonights debate will feature five independent candidates running in this years candidates were selected by the public through our voting up. They represent a variety of Party Affiliations and bring an array of positions to the table. We will laugh targeting questions on the topic the Mainstream Media avoids. Some questions were submitted by the public. At the conclusion of the event, we will host a poll on our website for you to decide the winner of the debate. The poll will be open for 72 hours to make sure to weigh in with your thoughts. Ing the freeandequal. She is a for