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Important constituencies. we cant rely on just journalists. yes, they need to take steps to protect their digital identity, to, you know, do social media hygiene, but we also need newsrooms to take this issue seriously and realize that it is endemic to certain beats. its very likely in retaliation for certain stories and that they need to address this proactively with their reporters, both staff and free lance. and we need the technology companies to do their part, because this is pervasive on t...

>> mitch mcconnells campaign twitter account is back up and running after the social media giant briefly suspended last week claiming that protestors shouting profanities and protestors outside of home violated policy, that incident seen by many conservatives as latest evidence of big-tech bias and some calling on the government to act, we are back with dan henninger, allysia finley and kyle peterson, was it justified in cutting the account down? >> i think theres two separate issues, whether th...

Signal on social media space and responding to it on the ground. to do that, you have to have seamless integration between the tech platforms, law enforcement, federal law enforcement. i advocate for social media intelligence center which brings the entities together to quickly communicate. it takes resources and emphasis. and thats really been the challenge. we fought it during international terrorism area. we havent put the same resources towards it in domestic space. >> clint, as you know, it...

>> we could expect that to come out. youve got a lot of outside experts like tim wu, the columbia law professor who has called for them to be broken up testifying against some of the companies. you also have lawmakers setting up what is going the be the most important hearing in the series that weve seen yet, because it really does touch on the big picture here, questions of whether or not these companies, these tech platforms, are able to stifle innovation and strangle comp tetition. and thats ...

Have are anecdotes right now. there are a couple reasons for that. two things that are universally true about moderation. that is that it is nearly impossible to do well at scale and everyone is always unhappy with it. so when you have the tech platforms, they have tens of millions of posts her day. and facebook probably more than that with 10 billion users. you see massive content coming out. the latest stat said 11 million accounts were reported in the last six months of last year. and the mos...

Bargaining power to get fair terms and conditions. so i think its appropriate for this situation and especially because its limited in scope, i do support it. i also wanted to point out that the hearing is not only about this bill. the exemption is very important but we need to have other remedies to break up the stranglehold that the tech platforms have over the ad revenue thats so essential to support journalismism. >> theres a realization in congress and i had a chance to talk to representati...

We have a war with socialism in the united states of america right now. >> tucker: but youre absolutely right that theyre never pressed on this by anybody except in the most sort of sensitive way. and that confuses me because journalists have everything at stake in the first amendment. they should be opposed to censorship. they usually have been. why are they no longer? >> because journalist want to be eaten last. the journalist are socialists just like the tech guys are, just like all the media...

We have a war with socialism in the united states of america right now. >> tucker: but youre absolutely right that theyre never pressed on this by anybody except in the most sort of sensitive way. and that confuses me because journalists have everything at stake in the first amendment. they should be opposed to censorship. they usually have been. why are they no longer? >> because journalist want to be eaten last. the journalist are socialists just like the tech guys are, just like all the media...

Tienammen square. breaking tonight, linkedin restored his page, saying they made a mistake. separately, without you do know, documents filed by the dot-com c chamber of commerce show that in 2017,e google shifted $23 billin to a tax shelter in bermuda. the move is legaln but allows te company to avoid u.s. income taxes and european withholding taxes. google says it pays all its taxes and complies with all laws. tucker? >> tucker: trace, thank you for that. back in this country, as major tech pla...

Pro democracy requests in continue aman qusquare. they restored his page saying they made a mistake. documents filed by the dutch chamber of commerce show that in 2017, google shifted $23 billion to a tax shelter in bermuda. the move is legal but allows the company to avoid u.s. income taxes and european withholding taxes. google says it pays all its taxes and complies with all laws. tucker? >> tucker: trace, thank you for that. back in this country as major tech platforms continue to suppress f...