We will come to order, please. Together the cometty gathers to what the Technology Industry is doing to remove sleep. Content from their platforms. This is a matter of serious mportance to the safety and wellbeing of our nations communities. I sincerely hope we can engage clabtive discussion about what more can be done within the jurisdiction of this committee keep our communities safe from those wishing to do us harm. Representatives social Worlds Largest Media Companies. Several r from representatives. Over the past two decades the ups has led the world in the and opment of social media other services that allow people to connect with one another. Open Platform Providers like google, twitser, and facebook and roducts like Instagram Youtube have dramatically changed the away we communicate have been used positively minded groupslike to come together and shed light of power and abuses matter ut the world no how great the service these latforms provide, they can be used for evil at home
We will come to order, please. Together the cometty gathers to discuss this meeting will come to order. Thank you. This committee gathers to discuss what the Technology Industry is doing to remove sleep. And extremist content from their platforms. This is a matter of serious importance to the safety and wellbeing of our nations communities. I sincerely hope we can engage in a collaborative discussion about what more can be done within the jurisdiction of this committee to keep our communities safe from those wishing to do us harm. To do us harm. Representatives social Worlds Largest Media Companies. Several r from representatives. Over the past two decades the ups has led the world in the and opment of social media other services that allow people to connect with one another. Open Platform Providers like google, twitser, and facebook and roducts like Instagram Youtube have dramatically changed the away we communicate have been used positively minded groupslike to come together and shed
Today we welcome representatives from the Worlds Largest social Media Companies and Online Platforms. We hear from ms. Monica bickert, head of the Global Policy management for facebook. And mr. Nick pickles, Public Policy at twitter. Mr. Derrick slater, global director of information policy at google and mr. George saline, Senior Vice President of programs for the antidefamation league. Platforms have dramatically changed the way we skmcommunica and have been used positively for likeminded groups to come together and shed light on despotic regimes throughout the world. No matter how great the benefit to society these platforms provide, it is important to consider how they can be used for evil at home and abroad. On august 3rd, 2019, 20 people were killed and more than two dozen injured in a mass shooting at an el paso shopping center. Police have said that they are reasonably confident that the suspect posted a manifesto to a website called 8chan 27 minutes prior to the shooting. 8 cha
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
Test. Captioning performed by vitac theres no way of knowing what number of people are in homes that have already already have filters and dont even, therefore, know about a video because it just cant be accessed. We know that many teachers try to show our videos in classes and they come up they can do it on their own, but they cant do it through the school. What explanation has google given you for the restriction . You use the great word, frustration. We have gotten none. And actually its almost unbelievable because if you look at the list, like the Ten Commandments being a perfect example of how people will go, youve got to be kidding. I finally found out today, you did, we all heard the representative of google told us why the Ten Commandments video was taken down, because it contains murder. So, as i said, we have a solution, we will put up one without thou shall not murder in it. Thats so absurd as to be hilarious. This will be something i will replay on my radio show for years.