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 the internet are under attack, soon we will hear from the ceos of three of the most prominent internet platforms, facebook, google and twitter, with this is include mr. Jack dorsey of twitter, of alphabet inc. And mr. Marx a burger facebook. On october 1 this committee voted on a bipartisan and unanimous basis to approve the issuance of subpoenas after discussions among representatives of the companies witnesses agreed to attend it voluntarily and remotely the stronger agreement on both sides of the aisle t
[inaudible conversations] this hearing will come to order. Ms. Cantwell will join us remotely at the beginning of the hearing. We convene to continue work to make sure the laws that govern it are sufficiently uptodate the internet is a Great Success story thanks in large part to the regulatory and legal structure that we cannot take that for granted and with those prominent internet platforms the witnesses include mr. Jack dorsey. And Mark Zuckerberg of facebook. On october 1st the committee voted on bipartisan and unanimous basis to approve the issuance of subpoenas after discussions among representatives and the Committee Witnesses have agreed to voluntarily and remotely appear there is a strong agreement on both sides of these aisled that hearing frm these witnesses with those deliberations before this committee with legislative reformss with a free and open internet i was 25 years it has been the hallmark of a driving Digital Economy in the United States this has been attributed b
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
Will bring you the headlines through our surveillance today. Impressed with how quickly the headlines are moving at a rapid speed. Lets get the bloomberg first word news. Vonnie it is day three of france president s Francois Hollandes push against the Islamic State. Today he talks with german chancellor Angela Merkel who says germany is ready to strengthen its military commitment to relieve a french forces. Belgium is searching for another terror suspect that was seen driving a car with one of the suspected organizers of the paris terror attack two days before the attacks occurred. So far belgium authorities have arrested five people. The unprecedented lockdown of brussels is slowly coming to an end. Nato is ordering deescalation after turkey shut down the russian warplane. They called for further contact between turkey and russia. In new york russian and u. S. Diplomats met. According to a Russian News Agency russia would be willing to accept a new agreement on airspace if nato came u
Come under the individual. Is not correct . Said the military personnel working in labs are Infectious Disease specialist. I dont want to know who they are. I want to know where they exposed. They are considered low risk because they have the entire suite of protective equipment and extensive training. One of my problems come in general, very little time and i want to be pleasant through this whole thing, but we have the ahead of cdc, supposed to be the expert and hes made statements that simply arent true. Dr. , you can get ebola sitting next to someone on a bus if they throw up on you. Thats reasonable . The way you get a bullet is by exposure to body fluids, yes. Okay, when the head of the cdc says you cant get it from somebody on the bus next to you, that is just not true. When the head of the cdc says we know what we are doing, but in fact Health Care Professionals wearing what they thought was appropriate protective material got it and that means its wrong. When the head of the c