Protection product safety insurance and Data Security subcommittee will come to order. Were pleased to have our witnesses here on a topic that i think is of value and has some opportunity for us to make a difference. Whether its garth brooks concert at wichita, a ku basketball game in lawrence or the mosthyped and prestigious broadway show of all time hamilton, the digital age made acquiring tickets easier than ever, but an ageold issue of ticket scalping has been made more prevalent by advances in technology. When youre trying to pick up tickets for the next big event, youre no longer competing against other eager fans, youre now forced to compete against an army of sophisticated ticket bots that overwhelm the website with brute force, scoop up as many tickets as possible and resell them on a secondary market at a significant markup. So whats a ticket bot . Heres my quick example. Live performance is happening. Garth brooks concert in wichita. You know lots of people who want to be th
Hearing of the then Consumer Product security, will come to order. Were pleased to have our witnesses here on a topic that i think is of value and has an opportunity to make a difference. Whrl it is garth brooks or k. U. , basketball game or hamilton, the digital age has made acquiring tickets easier than ever, and, ticket scalping has been made even more previous a length. When youre trying to pick up tickets youre no longer competing against other eager fans. You are competing against ticket bots, and, scoop up as many and resell them on a secondary market at a significant markup. So, whats a ticket bot . Heres my quick example a. Live performance is happening, garth brooks concert, you know lots of people who want to be there, and theres only so many Tickets Available. People who use boughts, overwhelm it can by cutting in line, ahead of regular fans. While those tickets are taken out of circulation they use human operators to enter distinct names and circumvent other security measu
Palestinians, but not as refugees, and they dont recognize them as such. For what its worth, unlike china and the other countries, they do pay into a system of trying to at least create some resources. The gulf countries that have not participated, there are only 26 countries that participate. One of the reasons that people dont head to other countries, for starters they do. There was a crisis of people fleeing and boats. They were basically trying to go anywhere that they could land. In the moment of extremists around violence, people flee to their immediate neighbors, they dont try to go to the united tates or europe. They tried to go to the place nearest where they hope to find some kind of safe haven. The truth is, those of the societies that are already in the global south at the breaking point in terms of their economies. Their managing very challenging circumstances in which the ikelihood that a refugee large refugee population arriving will be able to integrate and maintain liv
Face is often that there are we have to look at these problems not only from the question of, heres a new service, such as maybe being used by initially by a small slays of the population that has certain selfregulating characteristics to it. When you think about a Regulatory Regime that will apply not only to what exists today but with what comes after it. How these individual services revolve, what new services are created in the same space. So theyre there needs to be an openedminedness on the part of local governments and also a measure of caution that says what works for Transportation Company x may actually turn out to not be sufficiently protective of the Public Interests when it comes to Transportation Company y that starts up next week. So, i think thats the balance we have but we certainly found that most of the companies in the space have been very open to working with us at the local level and its a dialogue that the city of austin at least is very open to having. Adam cono
Is the case that the spread has Community Standards his and into to chairman what can receive it on the site. We do have strict those that have a seafood content we call direct harm purpose of the is directly inciting violence that is precluded. What i hear you say is if it does not meet the standards it is not that it gets pushed down is just . It violates Community Standards to incite violence then it will be precluded from being on our side to reinforce that that in most instances we do not go out to police that we wait for one of our users to report. You would not use that the algorithm only block it or not. Yes. Got it. And now you talk about a worldwide phenomenon. We are a Global Service and we have to abide by the laws in which we operate. In addition to Community Standards basically we will respond to demands from government if they conform to the laws of that country. We will not typically take something off of the sites but we may blot kit in the jurisdiction of the area. No