on holding big tech companies accountable for user-created content. legal experts and consumer advocates testify in this portion. chairman doyle: ok. we are ready to roll. ok. welcome. we are ready to introduce our witnesses for today s second panel. are we good? ms. carrie goldberg, owner of ca goldberg. mr. matthew wood, vice president of policy and general counsel free press action. mr. daniel lyons, professor and associate dean of academic affairs, boston college law school. a nonresident senior fellow of the american enterprise institute. mr. eugene volokh, gary t. schwartz distinguished professor of law, ucla school of law. the honorable karen kornbluh, director of digital innovation and democracy initiative. and senior fellow of the german marshall fund of the united states. and dr. mary anne franks, professor of law and michael r. klein distinguished scholar, chair at the university of miami school of law, president and legislative tech policy director, cyber civil ri
next, the house hearing on holding big tech companies accountable for user created content. witnesses addressed censorship, racial, and linguistic biases and protecting kids online. subcommittee hearing. this is addressed questions of censorship, biases, and protecting kids online. this hearing is about six hours. the committee now come to order. today, the subcommittee on communications and technology is holding a hearing entitled hold big tech accountable, targeted reforms. due to the covid-19 public health and meet emergency, members can participate either in person or remotely via online videoconferencing. members who are not vaccinated and dissipating in person must wear a mask and be socially distanced. such members may remove their masks when they re under recognition and speaking from a microphone. steph and preston were not vaccinated and present must wear a mask at all times and be socially distant. members dissipating remotely, your microphones will be set on m
a very good thursday morning to you. you can start calling in on your top political story of the year as we show you some headlines from recent days. this is a piece from the wall street journal last week, politics was supposed to return to normal in 2021. he asks what happened. npr s wrap up from the capital right to abortion rights. politico asked historians how this year will be written about centuries from now. here is their wrap up of what historians had to say. many highlighted the erosion of democratic norms in the u.s., most notably through the attempt to question and overturn legitimate election results. a number focused on the downstream effects of the pandemic like labor market shifts and more. we heard about systemic racism from black americans, an uptick in violence against asian americans and an overall feeling the country was polarized along racial lines. other contributors believed 2021 will be remembered as a missed opportunity to address climate change and
see their loved ones. for other people they found out today, more than 1,000 flights canceled for this entire we weekend, today and tomorrow form the number are staggering, delta announced more than 280, jetblue more than 100 flights. all those people were excited about traveling again. i just spoke with a man who is on his way to paris. he says his hasn t seen hi family since 2019, because the borders closed, and despite the omicron variant or delta, anything else, he s going to make his way back to his family. other travelers are not so lucky. listen to their fears of not making it home in time. so a lot of those travelers are talking about what it means for them not seeing their family, but stuck in the airport. people are starting to make their way to get inside. some of those flights were canceled earlier in the day. more flights were scheduled for the afternoon and for the evening hours, but this time around, people have been checking their phone. i spoke with one woman
i m rah hall solomon in for fredicka whitfield. after two to three months of rain fell in 24 thundershowers swamped camp sites at the popular burning man festival. take a look at this video. thick, ankle-deep mud making it impossible and even drive in some places. attendees have been told to conserve food, water and fuel. they re stopping anyone from going in or out with the exception of emergency vehicles. some festival goers have trucked on food to reach main roads. that includes comedian chris rock who described hiking four miles before being able to hitch a ride from a fan. julian bergeron left burning man and is back in charleston, south carolina. how did you get out? it was kind of a crazy thing. i hitched a ride with an atv that was heading out that needed to get somebody more important than me out to the front area. they were willing to let me sit in the back. got a ride out to the main road. when i got out there, i immediately found a guy who was towing a vehi