Eastern on cspans q a. Ceos of facebook, twitter and google appeared virtually at a Senate Commerce hitting Senate Commerce hearing. Republicans question whether the companies were censoring conservative viewpoints while democrats raised concerns about the spread of misinformation. Throughout the hearing, there were several references to section 230 of the committee occasions decency act, which shields social Media Companies from liability for content posted on their sites. This is three and a half hours. This hearing will come to order, senator cantwell is going to join us in person but she joins us remotely at the beginning of the hearing, we have convened this morning to continue work of this committee to ensure the internet remains a free and open space and they are sufficiently uptodate, it is a Great American success story, thanks in large part to the regulatory and legal structure our government put in place, we cannot take that success for granted, the openness and freedom of t
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You go to safety. Youre going to buy volatility, yields, bonds, and the dollar. 10 year yield now 75 basis quite a move from just a few days ago. Crude battered, beaten up today. Less demand for those oil prices. Guy absolutely. Lets recap where we are and what is going on. The german chancellor Angela Merkel currently meeting with heads of the german states. We are going to hear from her we think when that meeting wraps. We are probably likely to hear from her as well tomorrow morning. We are also getting Emmanuel Macron a little later on. Both countries moving toward more restrict of lockdowns. Lets get the latest. Maria tadeo joins us from brussels. Theres a lot of ideas floating around. None of this will be official until both Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel speak. The idea is we are moving into something that looks like a fulltime lockdown in the case of the french government, that we understand is seriously considering a onemonth lockdown that would start thursday night, going
For almost 25 years, the preservation of Internet Freedom has been the hallmark of a thriving Digital Economy in the United States. The success has largely been attributed to a light touch Regulatory Framework and to section 230 of the communications decisions the act, the 26 words they created the internet. There is little dispute that section 230 played an early role ofthe Critical Development Online Platforms. It provides protection from liability to remove and moderate content that take what their users consider to be obscene, filthy,cinius, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable. This shield has been pivotal in protecting Online Platforms from but it has also given these internet platforms the ability to control, cycle, and even censor content in whatever manner. The time has come for that free pass to end. 230, 24 years of section much has changed. The internet is no longer in emerging technology. Companies before us today are no longer scrappy startups operat
And as andrew was talking about, with mr. Lansdale, big tech will testify. The ceos of facebook, alphabet and twitter will face questions from a Senate Committee this morning. We, of course, will bring that to you carl guys, a lot of jitters, jim, this morning, as to what macron may say later on tonight, european time. Your point on social media has been this premarket weakness is not about the earnings themselves. Right look we would be in a stay in place order if we adopt what merkel is talking about. We have never been on the same page as merkel when trump came in she is more rigorous about hygiene and about masks and social distancing than our country is our country is not the way of germany. I would say you see chicago close, all the dining places, and restaurants and start thinking about travel, leisure, hospitality, it then bleeds into boeing we have this morning and i think it is impossible to think about boeing without thinking about once you get there, where can you go . I th