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Is why does this keep happening. and at the core of that is the concentration of power in the hands of a very small number of individuals -- steve: yes, yes. >> -- who impose their values on the rest of us by the design and scaling of these technologies without any constraint, without transparency and without accountability. steve: exactly. concentrate -- i use that phrase so often in so many contexts about so many policy areas. rob, you can add to that or maybe move into some of the recommendat...

Who was being held in custody by the bureau of prisons or by some other facility and theyre not getting proper medical, thats wrong. im sure the justice department will agree with that. more nefarious is the insinuation by the judge in that case, that he doesnt know, implicated the idea that maybe this is so because of the particular crime for which that person has been charged and the conduct he was charged with. i dont know and i have not seen any evidence to that effect and people will talk a...

This is intended to benefit donald trump. and so if you simply take those facts and run it through the supreme court case, what youre left with is a very weak invocation of privilege by a former president, trump, and a very strong waiver by a current president, biden. does the committee get the stuff? thats the really interesting question, because one strategy, and weve seen trump use it in other contexts, is simply to run out the clock. its to go to court, even with a specious or frivolous clai...

This is about women coming forward and reporting very serious crimes that have happened against them, whether its in public spaces, whether its in the workplace, whether its in a range of different contexts. watch the additional hate crime category does is it signals very, very clearly to society as a whole that this behaviour is not acceptable. its a searching question. to what extent can police and the law prevents unacceptable to what extent can police and the law prevent unacceptable misogyn...

Some of us need to be accountable, -- is trying to raise public awareness but the unique thing today, is you saw, i think it was senator jenner running and blumenthal said we dont have differences on this. were gonna do something about it. were gonna work together. and thats what makes this a transformative moment, i have not seen something like this happen in the eight years ive worked on this topic. >> okay so, theres a few things here, whenever i see this theres always some -- whats new and w...

Sides say we dont have differences on this anymore, were going to do something about it, were going to work together. thats what makes this honestly a transformative moment. i have not seen something like this happen in the eight years ive worked on this topic. >> theres a few things here. whenever i see this theres always some part of me trying to sort through whats new and whats not. if you read about the rwandan genocide, radio rwanda, it was used quite explicitly as the tool to promote that ...

That internally its impossible. >> i think its very difficult and when you have taepeams of t of thousands of peeople that ar the content moderators, and by the way, most are english speaking, theyre in the u.s. and the u.k., where most of the users of facebook and other social media are outside of the u.s. and the u.k. in different languages, you know, hundreds of different languages, different cultural contexts, its a very difficult problem, and so i think if youre able to get rid of the algor...

Careful. its not all clear to me that whatever new regulations emerge from this will be regulations we are all happy with either. >> bret: right, and restricting some stories, the hunter biden story at the beginning and others. steve, taking the other point of view for the people who say we have these companies that are tremendously successful in the u.s. is it dangerous for us to be going after the goose that lays the golden egg? >> right. i think thats a pretty strong argument in many contexts...

Or really does itfor us -- i didnt pick up on a hint of yelling. there was nobody upset with at. there was nothing to say on the record in rms of rebutting this thing that you would think would be damning in any other context. if somebody tried to do what you remake of a petty triumph the screenplay, or remake of twork, this wld see heavy-handed. but yet this is stop reality of the fox news empire. we >> asawin suebsaeng think you for reporting, appreciated. i want to bring in doctor dr. vivek m...

What really does it for us, i didnt pick up on a hint of yelling. there was nobody upset with that. there was nothing to say on the record in terms of rebutting this thing you would think would be damning in any other context. if somebody tried to do a remake of a paddy chaeki film would be big deal. surgeon general under president joe biden, formerly under president obama. start with your assess. of the efficacy of various policies as they play out and hit deadlines across the country in vari...