Hes a democrat from california and he represents much of Silicon Valley. Our guest report is Emily Birnbaum of protocol. Thank you both for being on the communicators this week. Thank you for having us. Host representative khanna, as the representative of Silicon Valley how would you describe the reputation of some of the Member Companies in your district in washington . Guest on one hand there is a lot of positives. If you look at the polling, the Tech Companies pull above 6070 for their approval. Theres a sense these are companies some of them working on vaccines, the bioTech Companies working on antivirals. They are allowing for zoom for remote work, for remote calls. That they are engaged in allowing us to have communication, allowing us to get our groceries or information. That said, there are other ethical issues. Theres a sense are so essential workers being paid a partly . Are these platforms thing that the combat hate speech and Voter Suppression . Are they doing enough to pay
Impacts much of Silicon Valley print our guest reporter is Emily Birnbaum of the protocol. Thank you both for being on the communicators this week. Thank you for having us. Host congressman, as the representative of Silicon Valley how would you describe the reputation of some of the Member Companies in your district right now in washington . Guest well, i think on one hand there is a lot of positiv positives. If you look at the polling the Tech Companies pull about 60, 70 of their approval and there is a sense that these are companies and some are working on vaccines and companies are working on antivirals and they are allowing for remote work, for remote calls that they are engaged in allowing us to have good medication in the time of a pandemic and allowing them to get groceries or information but that said there are a lot of other ethical issues in a sense of essential workers being paid appropriately and are these doing enough combat hate speech and Voter Suppression and are they d
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Polled about 60 to 70 approval. There is a sense that some of these companies are working on vaccines, working on antivirals and such. For are allowing for zoom remote work, for remote calls, they are engaged in allowing us to have communication in the time of a pandemic, allowing us ,o get groceries, that said there are other ethical issues. There is a central essential workers being paid appropriately. Are these platforms doing enough to combat a speech . Are they doing enough to pay workers a living wage . So it is complex. Peter there has been talk on capitol hill of regulating Tech Companies, communications companies, more than they are now. Are you in favor of that . I am, asative khanna long as it is wellcrafted legislation. We came up with legislation to protect privacy, such as being able to move your data. If you have friends on facebook, you should be able to take them to a different platform so it can encourage competition. If it is regulation, to make beinghat we have wage