Georgetown university hosted this 90 minute event. [applause] thank you. We are very proud of our partnership with the night First Amendment institute of columbia. Startedus have projects by the Knight Foundation and now have other supporters as well. I want to pick up with the notion of the marketplace of ideas. I think that is what a lot of people think the internet was going to be, some people of believe it really is. Kara do you believe socialmedia is performing effectively as the market place of ideas . Kara no, i dont, all i read about is how it doesnt. It is a cesspool. Sanford i sort of knew what your answer would he. Kara it is not completely a cesspool, it is just the way it has evolved has created dust she brought up the idea of the Public Square present everybody thinks that twitter is a Public Square, or facebook is a Public Square, or reddit, or any of these sites. The fact of the matter is that both of them are Public Squares owned and to the benefit of millionaires. So
Cspan is brought to you by your local cable and satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Next a Congressional Panel looks at Online Platforms and impact on entrepreneurship in the u. S. Well hear from google, apple, facebook and amazon officials who talk about ecommerce. This portion of the house judiciary hearing is is an hour and 50 minutes. Good afternoon. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to the second of our series of hearings investigating competition in the digital markets. This one on innovation and entrepreneurship. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. 30 years ago the First Software for the worldwide web was released into the Public Domain to create a Global Communications network. Within a few years, search and browsing services were built onto the software to give people tools to communicate, share and explore information throu
Notion of the marketplace of ideas. I think that is what a lot of people think the internet was going to be, some people of believe it really is. Kara do you believe socialmedia is performing effectively as the market place of ideas . I want to pick up with the notion of the marketplace of ideas. I think that is what a lot of people think the internet was going to be, some people of believe it really is. Kara do you believe socialmedia is performing effectively as the market place of ideas . Kara no, i dont, all i read about is how it doesnt. Has evolved has created dust she brought up the idea of the Public Square present everybody thinks that twitter is a Public Square, or facebook is a Public Square, or reddit, or any of these sites. The fact of the matter is that both of them are Public Squares owned and to the benefit of millionaires. So it is not a Public Squares. We have deemed them the rights of a Public Square but they arent taking the responsibilities of any public space. The
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Th really twitter. I dont think theres anything such as an antisensorship platform. You have a principles in place that dictate how your community develops. You look at the most laissez faire places on the internet, the silk road, even they had a prohibition on child pornography, for instance, selling nuclear weapons. No matter where you go, youre going to have certain prohibitions. You see the reason why 8chan went down is because of attacks because that makes it unusable. There are certain types of actions with websites that make them unusable that are not welcome. When you make those choices, you say who you are, what you will become and who you will welcome. I think saying that youre anticensorship, you probably arent. You just have a different agenda from the sites you claim to differentiate yourself from. Thank you. Next . Fascinating conversation. I was hoping you could elaborate on the antitrust discussion you were hav
The two year note at 1. 496 and then lets show you what is going on overnight in asia as i mentioned, these tariffs going into effect today, youre looking at a mixed picture there, the hang seng off just marginal the shanghai composite up just a little bit we are monitoring Hurricane Dorian and well take you live to the path of dorian in a few minutes but we want to talk about hong kong and whats going on there, the protests continue here lets get to chris with the latest theyre now in their 13th week in hong kong and this last one has already been the most violent over the weekend we saw battles between police and protestors who turned out to the streets by the tens of thousands. First very peacefully and then things got violent and some of them threw bricks and bars at Police Police responded with a volley of tear gas. A water cannon and something that we hadnt seen before putting blue dye in the water in order to identify protestors afterwards and things got uglier when he chased a