We have a great panel with us today. Former director of the bureau of protection for the federal trade commission. We will have the president of the computer and communication industry association. And here to discuss the department of justice proposal, we have lauren willard, counselor to the attorney general. We are very lucky to have this great panel here. We will walk through the actual proposal. Then for some commentary over the industry and consumer side of things. Give ai want to kind of little level set. Im sure most of the people dialed in have some familiarity with section 230 and understand what it is all about, but i would like to give some history to give some context to the statutes and so forth. When we talk about the Communications Decency act section 230 with the fairly recent movie, the wolf of wall particular the character based on daniel koresh. He was an employee with the company that was Leonardo Dicaprios business in that movie. Hillarify your memory, mr. Was the
Up next testimony from dacts lien kraniger. She talks about her agencys role in protecting consumers during the pandemic. This hearing will come to order. This hearing is another remote video hearing. Ill go through quickly some of the standard reminders to remind everybody, once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before your picture shows on the screen. To minimize background noise, please remember to click the mute button until it is your and if theres a technology issue, weve move on until it gets resolved. The fiveminute time still some senators say they dont seem to be able to find that. If you go to the righthand side of the screen and move your mouse, some options will show up. One of them is the grid view. If you click grid view, you will see a grid of everybody, and one of the things youll see is the clock. Ill try to gently remind people, because some senator have asked for the reminder because they cant see the clock. Again senator brown and i have agreed to go
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