Executives from google testify testifying the company censorship policy. We also hear from andy parker the father of the journalist who was killed on live tv and a conservative communicator said that google and youtube try to restrict video content for texas sanity senator ted cruz chaired the hearing. This hearing is called to order. Good afternoon. Let me say to folks i apologize the hearing was delayed in our start time. The series of votes on the senate or the just concluded so welcome to our witnesses. This past april the subcommittee held a hearing on social media bias with witnesses from ace books and twitter. As i noted then any inquiry into big tax censorship practices must take an especially hard look at google. Thats what we are doing here today. Googles control over what people hear, watch read and say is unprecedented. Almost 90 of internet searches in the United States use google. Googles domination of the Search Engine market is so complete that to google is now a common
Id ask each of the witnesses for the second panel to please take your seats. I apologize for that delay. We went through the three votes we had. We will now begin the second panel of five witnesses. Each witness will have a fiveminute Opening Statement followed by rounds of questions. Our first witness is Mister Dennis prager. Dennis prager is a bestselling author, columnist, nationally syndicated radio talk show host and also the cofounder of Prager University, an institution of Higher Learning on the internet which produces fiveminute videos in which experts distill complex topics in political science, history, philosophy, economics and psychology. Mister prager was appointed by Ronald Reagan to the us delegation to the vienna review conference on the helsinki accords. He was also appointed by george w. Bush to the us Holocaust Memorial council. Our second witness is facing kint, ceo of Digital Content, a trade association that serves the unique needs of Digital Content companies. Be
Test. Captioning performed by vitac theres no way of knowing what number of people are in homes that have already already have filters and dont even, therefore, know about a video because it just cant be accessed. We know that many teachers try to show our videos in classes and they come up they can do it on their own, but they cant do it through the school. What explanation has google given you for the restriction . You use the great word, frustration. We have gotten none. And actually its almost unbelievable because if you look at the list, like the Ten Commandments being a perfect example of how people will go, youve got to be kidding. I finally found out today, you did, we all heard the representative of google told us why the Ten Commandments video was taken down, because it contains murder. So, as i said, we have a solution, we will put up one without thou shall not murder in it. Thats so absurd as to be hilarious. This will be something i will replay on my radio show for years.
The free cspan radio app. And before the hearing, listen to the complete Mueller Report at cspan. Org on your laptop or mobile device. Type Mueller Report audio in the search box at the top of the page. The audio is courtesy of timberlane media. Next, part of a recent hearing on google and censorship. Among the witnesses, andy parker, father of allison parker, who was killed during a live tv broadcast, and dennis prager, a conservative commentator who claimed that google and youtube sought to restrict or remove his video content. This is an hour and ten minutes. Good morninafternoon, every. Welcome back. I would ask each of the witnesses for the second panel to please take your seat. Apologize for that delay while we went through the three votes we had. We will now begin the second panel of five witnesses. Each witness will have a fiveminute Opening Statement followed by rounds of questions. Our first witness is mr. Dennis prager. Dennis prager is a bestselling author, a columnist, and
Wounded more in christchurch, new zealand. The motive behind the attack is not in question. The terrorists has written a mixed and the manifesto outlining his White Supremacists, white nationalists, antiimmigrant, antimuslim, and fascist bullies. Beyonds horrifying words, and it shocked the conscience. Shockingly, the terrorist was allowed to live stream on facebook where the gruesome video went undetected initially. Instead, Law Enforcement officials in new zealand had to contact the company and ask that it be removed. New zealand authorities called on all social Media Companies to remove these videos immediately, they were unable to comply. Upan moderators did not keep with the volume of videos being reposted, and their Automated Systems were unable to recognize minor changes in the video, so the video spread online, and is spread around the world. The fact that this happened merely two years after facebook, twitter, google, microsoft, and other Major Tech Companies establish the Glo