Acknowledging a very different trails. They are the most powerful forces fighting for our attention. The approach of work without Political Violence its technology that say is Fueling Misinformation and polarizing content for clicks and profit. A safer, free speech sprekting more enjoyable social media is possible. This morning, were going look at how the Technology Companies built platforms connecting the world that are now challenging the very foundations of democracy. Conditioning congress is concerned about what big content we see. You used this power to run amok. You have used it to silence conservatives. We do have National Security concerns from the fbis end about tiktok. Democratic senator of minnesota and republican congressman Mike Gallagher of wisconsin will discuss what congress can do to regulate social media. Joining me for insight and analysis are New York Times Technology Reporter cecilia kang, carlos carbello, former Homeland Security jay johnson and Elizabeth Knoll la
acknowledging a very different trails. they are the most powerful forces fighting for our attention. the approach of work without political violence it s technology that say is fueling misinformation and polarizing content for clicks and profit. a safer, free speech sprekting more enjoyable social media is possible. this morning, we re going look at how the technology companies built platforms connecting the world that are now challenging the very foundations of democracy. conditioning congress is concerned about what big content we see. you used this power to run amok. you have used it to silence conservatives. we do have national security concerns from the fbi s end about tiktok. democratic senator of minnesota and republican congressman mike gallagher of wisconsin will discuss what congress can do to regulate social media. joining me for insight and analysis are new york times technology reporter cecilia kang, carlos carbello, former homeland securi
this is pre, sort of pre before the iphone. we didn t know what was coming. can this be amended rather than gotten rid of? yes, you can amend it on focus on certain kinds of speech misinformation, disinformation. all you re saying is we know people are going to put stuff on your alleged town square. your network has limits in place and standards. that s different thing. if you change the news feed, your news feed versus my news feed, isn t the company a publisher? let s start facing the facts and stop tending their a little company in a garage. maybe one day they were. but now they are a mega company. this is starting to happen all over the world. it is time for 2023, let it be
visiting as often. you would like to see 230 gone or amended? i think regulating speech is going to be hard in general. i think getting rid of 230 is going to be very difficult. i think republicans and democrats agree that it needs to be revised in some way. but for very different reasons. they come at it completely polar opposite reason for why. and as far as 230 goes as speech, i think what you re going to see is more individual lawsuits. you saw, for example with, the lawsuits against alex jones by the sandy hook families. you saw dominion voting machines, the company sue fox news this is not holding the tech companies, it s going after the individuals that use the tech platform. i think users, that will probably create bottle necks potentially in the spread of the
which are private companies that can have different content regulations, amazon web services, for example, kind of the infrastructure of the internet couldn t deny someone access to their services just they don t like their political belief. i think that s kind of the framework i have in mind. i m open to having that conversation. i listen to your interview closely. i love to go over, across the hill and talk to her about her ideas. just to put this is this a case of regulating the companies or protecting consumers? like should the focus be more on consumer protection or more on trying to regulate the company? for me, it s the latter. it s consumer protection. and one thing that we don t really think about is, you know, the complicates user agreement that s we all just click automatically. perhaps it s unreasonable for us to expect your average american citizen there is a great spoof about that. yeah, that s right. but we in congress should do a