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Our kids — americans online and particularly our kids. while this hearing shines a light— our kids. while this hearing shines a light on— our kids. while this hearing shines a light on tiktok, this hearing also should _ a light on tiktok, this hearing also should serve as a call to action for the congress to act now to protect americans— the congress to act now to protect americans from surveillance, tracking. _ americans from surveillance, tracking, personal data gathering and adjective...

Republicans who say president biden just hasnt been tough enough on tiktok and as the senate introduced a bipartisan bill last week to give the biden administration more power to make moves against tech platforms like tiktok, lindsey. >> thank you so much joining me right now is north carolina democratic congressman jeff jackson congressman, good to see you thanks for being with us this is your first term in office if this doesnt work out, you still have a future as a viral tiktok star. you have...

>> that is one of the most important things to try. i start in the book with the hunter biden laptop story, we know generally what happened with the suppression we saw from tech platforms, the twitter files, the intel agency cushing us with tech platforms to get this to happen but the media themselves did it and it is what started this worst trend more recently since trump left office, the anti-speech activism in the press where whether it is through covid or the hunter biden story and so many b...

According to a journalist who has extensively studied Big Tech giants such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google, these companies are not just private entities but essentially “agents of the national [...]

Point by the way that the plaintiff was making. they werent saying that the fact that this was published is the problem. the fact that the algorithms used by google amplified it and that was the problem. to your point, do i think that congress is going to actually challenge this? the problem is they are divided right now. conservatives have long focused on censorship. democrats have focused on misinformation. i think its hard for them to fundamentally change a law like this if they are not in ag...

They were to make such a ruling, it would have huge ripple effects on the internet. its more likely this gets punted to congress. >> it seems like a legislative action. how could either case change the way we use the internet if they were to surprise us with their rulings? >> lets say you took that immunity away from tech platforms and they were held accountable for everything. it would shut down the internet. no more comment sections. you couldnt post anything about authenticating your identity...

Responsible under this anti-terrorism act, if they found that way, they wouldnt have to address the limits of section 230 and the case we heard yesterday. that might be a way to skirt the issue, at least for now. >> sara, yesterday, the supreme court heard arguments for the other internet speech case involving google. tell us the similarities. >> both of them take into account whether or not tech plat forms should be libel for the content evidence users post. but with the google case yesterday, ...

Go to snhu.edu to get started. today at the supreme court a reminder of the terror attacks in paris nearly eight years ago now that killed about 130 people. the family of the lone american killed in that attack suing google arguing the company promotes and profits from extremist content posted on youtube. >> that was a horrible day that attack. it is one of the most significant challenges to big tech in recent history and could have major implications on the liability shields that have so far ...

Government was forecasting to these tech platforms that were coming and how they suppress the hunter biden story. we think it happened there based on what mr. zuckerberg said to. understand it wasnt just the fbi, it was several government agencies part of this foreign intelligence task force who were meeting not just with twitter but with all these platforms. they met weekly in the run-up to the 2020 election and they have continued to meet in the run-up to the 2022 midterms. we want to know wha...

Have and we believe based on what we learned from the twitter files, we believe all these big tech companies working with big government to suppress free speech, to suppress americans right to communicate and to communicate on these platforms which are now in essence the public square. thats what we want to know. who were you talking with, who was meeting with these tech platforms and how was this suppression done? thats what we believe happened, we are looking for the evidence and looking for t...