Platforms have violated antitrust laws in recent years as theyve risen to dominate the internet now arties Rachel Blevins joins us with the latest rachel what have we heard so far was there as we saw c. E. O. s from the 4 Largest Tech Companies in the country testified before the house judiciary antitrust subcommittee as part of an investigation looking at whether they have achieved such a major monopoly that they are no legally stifling their much smaller competitors because of the crown of virus pandemic these testimonies are being carried out virtually and the wind up includes the c. E. O. s of alphabet and Google Facebook apple and amazon now each of these companies have been accused of manipulating their platforms and search results to promote their own products and interests google users know that any time they search for a product the 1st several results are typically advertisements but today the topic of conversation included how google has benefited from those results. What is
And we are glad that they are here to do that for us. Lance has an incredible background. Not much experience with the military or think tanks or education and lance has all of them. Something notable that you might not of known is he is a speechwriter for gentleman here in california and does anyone remember the name george duke mason . He was also the writer for ed neese in the reagan administration. He has that and he is military experience and he is now the head policy person at tr i on the education track and delighted to welcome him back. [applause] thank you, erica, for that kind introduction and for welcoming back here to the Silicon Valley to the Biggest Group therapy session in the bay area and erica mentioned i started my career after law school and im a recovering lawyer so i started my career as a speechwriter and for those of you vaguely remember governor george i was the guy who gave the duke all that charisma. So i was a speechwriter for the governor and speechwriter fo
Brian if you are max frost and watching us right now 1866tell fox. Steve u. S. Open yesterday it was 100 degrees, the heat index down on the. They spent like a billion dollars for that that new roof. Hey, u. S. Open, close the lid. Brian only if its raining. Also, steve, my sense is the players had it worse than the fans. Not to focus too much on the doocy clan. Steve its a long story we didnt watch much of one match. We couldnt sit in the seats we had to mo around. Ainsley get on the jumbotron did you and cathy are is to kiss. Steve no. Brian anybody that goes to the u. S. Open has to bring ted. Were you there . Yeah. Ainsley it is a fun thing to do. Steve ted is one of our camera operators and right now he is pulling cable but somebody they dont know is the identity of the trump traitor. This is a man, presumably because the New York Times tweeted out something about he, who wrote an oped that appeared yesterday and it is a breathtaking event in president ial history where essentiall