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
Threehour hearing. This hearing is called to order. Good afternoon. Let me say to folks are attending i apologize the hearing was delayed in our start time. We had a series of votes on a singapore that just concluded and so welcome. Welcome to our witnesses. This past april the subcommittee held a hearing on social media buys with witnesses from facebook and twitter. As i noted then, in inquiry into big tech censorship practices must take an especially hard look at google. Thats what were doing here today. Googles control over what people here, watch, read, and say is unprecedented. Almost 90 of internet searches in the United States use google. Google domination of the Search Engine market is so complete that, to google, is now a commonplace. With that market power, google can and often does control our discourse. And sometimes Tech Companies talk about their products and the effects of those products as though their forces outside of big text control. As weve heard time and time agai
[ applause ] good afternoon. Financial Regulatory Reform, thats certainly the most common phrase being mentioned in this town. And with the help of my panelists were going to attempt to discover and analyze what that really means and what can be expected in the months to come in terms of Regulatory Reform. Here in the u. S. But importantly, what that means also in regards to the global regulatory frame work and interaction of u. S. Regulators and firms with those of the rest of the world. One common theme that we have heard consistently from both the Regulatory Community and the industry has been that a goal to support qualities which foster Economic Growth and Capital Formation but at the same time ensuring that safety and soundness is good. So Regulatory Reform gets mentioned and im going to quote in the last couple of days and most of them this mornings, comments that have been made by the Regulatory Community on this topic. Ill start probably with Governor Carney here on this stage
Global Affairs Global Government Affairs at policy at ge. Laura fraedrich, partner at jones day and warren maruyama, so please welcome them to the stage. Well, we saved the most timely topics for last and thank you for joining. One of the reasons this is particularly interesting is because President Trumps views have been developed over the 30 years so when you look at his public statements from trade in the late 80s, he uses language strikingly similar to today. In light of who hes picked to go into the administration, karan, how do you understand the president s objectives . First of all, kristen, i would say theyre evolving. What we saw coming out of certainly the campaign, coming out of the early days of the transition was a very strident, i think a lot of people used the term protectionist tone. I think we have seen even within the span of 90 plus days sort of an evolution in some of the messaging. I think take the nafta letter to congress for instance that was recently submitted.
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