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
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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
And the message exist but the first question is how do we get access . Thats a very important question. Right now we have no access to this data however there are initiatives of an industry Academic Consortium with this communication data and having trouble getting access. So in the past two weeks that not only does facebook read delay releasing the data that the projects approved they are planning to pull out by the end of september if facebook doesnt release the data they promised to release. So facebook has responded they are having difficulty releasing in a timely manner because of concerns of individual Data Security and privacy. This essentially brings up the transparency paradox. That these platforms are producing tremendous pressure to be more open and transparent how they are affecting our democracy. We do speak to the only way. The only way is to thread the needle of the cross paradox and become more secure engines apparent at the same time. What does that mean technically .
Mcmanus, also a capitol hill reporter. Thank you for being here. Republicans have up until now been complaining about the impeachment process. As these hearings and depositions have been a hind closed doors. But now with the Impeachment Vote and looking ahead for the process as it moves into the public sphere, can you talk a little bit about what the merits of your arguments look like . President trump has urged republicans to fight impeachment on the merits, not process. Can you talk about the arguments on the merits Going Forward . Rep. Johnson thats a good question. We just had a lengthy press conference after the vote on the house floor, which was bipartisan, you saw two democrats vote with the republicans not to proceed with the resolution. But we had problems with burroughs with both process and the substance and we are anxious to debate both of those things and do it in the open, and that is the main thing. We want the American People to see the evidence that chairmanship has de