No freedom at all. They will put this Great Republic on the trash heap of history if they have their way if our government does not act and act immediately. Both facebook and twitter this week censoring the New York Post bombshell reports linking joe biden to his son Hunter Bidens corrupt business dealings in ukraine and china. Facebook censored the stories. Twitter censored the stories. Facebook saying they needed to be fact checked. And twitter called the stories, quote, potentially harmful. Whatever in the world that means. Within minutes both social media platforms had put an end to the free flow of information in this country. The free flow of information that underpins our very democracy. They blocked millions of their users, including myself, to simply slow down the distribution of the New York Post exposes of the bidens. Twitter said their decision to censor the New York Post links fell under what they called their hack materials policy. It is a powell that twitter ceo policy t
I want to thank Ranking Member klobuchar and her staff for working closely with me and my office as we prepared for today and i also want to thank our chairman, the chairman of the full Senate Judiciary committee, senator graham, for his support of this hearing. After i and then senator klobuchar giving our opening remarks, well hear from two panels of witnesses with questions from members of the subcommittee. We have Something Interesting to deal with in the senate and every time they call votes, when they call votes during a subcommittee hearing, were at their mercy. Senator klobuchar and i have both cast our votes on the first of a series of three or four. At some point, were going to have to pause or tag team as we allow other members to sit in for us, just dont be eisenhower sitting on a stone block in the direction of the greatest accomplishments the president of the United States and Supreme Commander of the forces him. Greg on welcome to todays hearing with the policy and Consu
Grand prize of 5,000. The deadline to submit videos is january 20th, 2021. For competition rules, tips, and more information on how to get started, go to our website, studentcam. Org. Now, a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing examining googles Online Advertising and its potential impact on Market Competition. Lawmakers heard first from a google representative, then a panel of technology and trade association officials. There was also a focus on googles Online Search engine, data privacy issues, and antitrust legislation. Welcome to todays hearing of the subcommittee on antitrust competition policy and consumer rights. The title we have chosen for today is stacking the tech, hasi googleke harmed competition in Online Advertising . I want to thank Ranking Member klobuchar and her staff for working closely with me and my o office as we prepared for today. And also want to thank our chairman, the chairman of the full Senate Judiciary committee, senator graham, for his support of this he
Our chairman, the chairman of the full Senate Judiciary committee, senator graham, for his support of this hearing. After i and then senator klobuchar giving our opening remarks, well hear from two panels of witnesses with questions from members of the subcommittee. We have Something Interesting to deal with in the senate and every time they call votes, when they call votes during a subcommittee hearing, were at their mercy. Senator klobuchar and i have both cast our votes on the first of a series of three or four. At some point, were going to have to pause or tag team as we allow other members to sit in for us, just dont be alarmed if that happens. The focus of todays hearing is googles Online Advertising business. Whether its a monopolyist and whether it might have engaged in any conduct that harms competition and harms consumers. But before we go into that, i want to say just a few things about antitrust policy more broadly. Ive been a member of the subcommittee ever since 2011 when
Wipers and turn them off and it starts sprinkling again. Thats the kind of weather were seeing right now. Most of it is light. We are seeing somecounty. Wanted to zoom in to one other area, moderate rain fremont and yoom city and stops once you get to hayward. Were going to see this kind of activity going throughout the day. We indicates where the heavier rain is right now around san martin and gilroy. So the waves of rain coming through especially this morning will be a little bit more widespread and then becoming more hit or miss going into the afternoon. Mike, you have a crash in san jose. I do, kari. We are talking about the rain coming through out of south county. Our predictive traffic flow well talk about that in a second. We were showing the slowing north 280, you might have spotted that the last time we took the map. North 87 and 1k0 1, north 280 might affect traffic here as folks avoid 280 and continue up 101 and take back down 808 there were north 280 at tenth street. Coming