Our first speaker is joanne mcneil, author of lurking, the inaugural winner of the art foundations art writing award for an emerging writer, resident at ivy, Logan Nonfiction Program fellow and instructor. Our next speaker will be sorry. Hang on. Sorry. I had the video open on my computer and sending my own words back to me. It was very confusing. Our second speaker will be Charlton Mcilwain, author of black software, the internet and Racial Justice. The vice provost of faculty engagement at New York University and professor of Media Communication at nyu steinberg school, our final speaker is author of the new laws of robotics, Robert Citino from the Yale Information Society project. So take it away, joann. Im happy to be on this panel with two others i really appreciate and a topic im sure we have so much to say about. There is something of a history. There are many things to look at and representative of missed opportunities. I wanted to focus on ten or 12 years ago, the time of the
This hearing will come to order, senator cantwell is going to join us in person but she joins us remotely at the beginning of the hearing, we have convened this morning to continue work of this committee to ensure the internet remains a free and open space and they are sufficiently uptodate, it is a Great American success story, thanks in large part to the regulatory and legal structure our government put in place, we cannot take that success for granted, the openness and freedom of the internet are under attack, soon we will hear from the ceos of three of the most prominent internet platforms, facebook, google and twitter, with this is include mr. Jack dorsey of twitter, of alphabet inc. And mr. Marx a burger facebook. On october 1 this committee voted on a bipartisan and unanimous basis to approve the issuance of subpoenas after discussions among representatives of the companies witnesses agreed to attend it voluntarily and remotely the stronger agreement on both sides of the aisle t
[inaudible conversations] this hearing will come to order. Ms. Cantwell will join us remotely at the beginning of the hearing. We convene to continue work to make sure the laws that govern it are sufficiently uptodate the internet is a Great Success story thanks in large part to the regulatory and legal structure that we cannot take that for granted and with those prominent internet platforms the witnesses include mr. Jack dorsey. And Mark Zuckerberg of facebook. On october 1st the committee voted on bipartisan and unanimous basis to approve the issuance of subpoenas after discussions among representatives and the Committee Witnesses have agreed to voluntarily and remotely appear there is a strong agreement on both sides of these aisled that hearing frm these witnesses with those deliberations before this committee with legislative reformss with a free and open internet i was 25 years it has been the hallmark of a driving Digital Economy in the United States this has been attributed b
Eastern on cspans q a. Ceos of facebook, twitter and google appeared virtually at a Senate Commerce hitting Senate Commerce hearing. Republicans question whether the companies were censoring conservative viewpoints while democrats raised concerns about the spread of misinformation. Throughout the hearing, there were several references to section 230 of the committee occasions decency act, which shields social Media Companies from liability for content posted on their sites. This is three and a half hours. This hearing will come to order, senator cantwell is going to join us in person but she joins us remotely at the beginning of the hearing, we have convened this morning to continue work of this committee to ensure the internet remains a free and open space and they are sufficiently uptodate, it is a Great American success story, thanks in large part to the regulatory and legal structure our government put in place, we cannot take that success for granted, the openness and freedom of t
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