Skin two. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Mighty god, teach us to trust you more fully, to wait quietly for the unfolding of your providence, to pray fervently, and to worship more humbly. Reassure us with your wisdom, power, and love, that your providence will prevail. Lord, you are our shelter for every storm. Remind our lawmakers to remember how your purposes have prevailed in our nations history so they need not fear for the future. Provide them with a firm faith that will enable them to meet the daunting challenges of these times. Lord, lengthen their moments of prayer until their lives become a continual aspiration after you. We pray in your matchless name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivis
Executives from google testify testifying the company censorship policy. We also hear from andy parker the father of the journalist who was killed on live tv and a conservative communicator said that google and youtube try to restrict video content for texas sanity senator ted cruz chaired the hearing. This hearing is called to order. Good afternoon. Let me say to folks i apologize the hearing was delayed in our start time. The series of votes on the senate or the just concluded so welcome to our witnesses. This past april the subcommittee held a hearing on social media bias with witnesses from ace books and twitter. As i noted then any inquiry into big tax censorship practices must take an especially hard look at google. Thats what we are doing here today. Googles control over what people hear, watch read and say is unprecedented. Almost 90 of internet searches in the United States use google. Googles domination of the Search Engine market is so complete that to google is now a common
Id ask each of the witnesses for the second panel to please take your seats. I apologize for that delay. We went through the three votes we had. We will now begin the second panel of five witnesses. Each witness will have a fiveminute Opening Statement followed by rounds of questions. Our first witness is Mister Dennis prager. Dennis prager is a bestselling author, columnist, nationally syndicated radio talk show host and also the cofounder of Prager University, an institution of Higher Learning on the internet which produces fiveminute videos in which experts distill complex topics in political science, history, philosophy, economics and psychology. Mister prager was appointed by Ronald Reagan to the us delegation to the vienna review conference on the helsinki accords. He was also appointed by george w. Bush to the us Holocaust Memorial council. Our second witness is facing kint, ceo of Digital Content, a trade association that serves the unique needs of Digital Content companies. Be
The free cspan radio app. And before the hearing, listen to the complete Mueller Report at cspan. Org on your laptop or mobile device. Type Mueller Report audio in the search box at the top of the page. The audio is courtesy of timberlane media. Next, part of a recent hearing on google and censorship. Among the witnesses, andy parker, father of allison parker, who was killed during a live tv broadcast, and dennis prager, a conservative commentator who claimed that google and youtube sought to restrict or remove his video content. This is an hour and ten minutes. Good morninafternoon, every. Welcome back. I would ask each of the witnesses for the second panel to please take your seat. Apologize for that delay while we went through the three votes we had. We will now begin the second panel of five witnesses. Each witness will have a fiveminute Opening Statement followed by rounds of questions. Our first witness is mr. Dennis prager. Dennis prager is a bestselling author, a columnist, and
Marketplace. To help us discuss that this , wethe communicators have two guest. David chavern of the News Media Alliance which represents spapers, and matthew which represents technology and communications firms. When someone goes to a social media site and access news and information and perhaps a news site, is that a boon or a bust to traditional legacy news sites . It is definitely a boon. These Services Provide an extraordinary amount of traffic to traditional news media publishers in the context of a variety of other services. Internet users go to these services not just for news content but also to learn, to get answers, to engage with friends and families, to engage in communications but one service is accessed in his content. Happens, is publishers on the receiving end get extraordinary benefit. These services send upwards of 10 billion users a month to news publisher sites which those sites can then monetize either through their own services or through at networks. Pete if i w