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Tonight at eight eastern on the communicators on cspan2. Standard john cotton one members of the bridge about buying g5 equipment from the Chinese Company while way. The arkansas republican join former House Intelligence Committee chair mike rogers and retired Brigadier General Robert Spaulding who predecease her on the National Security council under the trump administration. They answered questions from the British Defense subcommittee on china for about two hours. Order, order. Welcome to thi...

Will come to the hearing to have differences with. I think that will make up the American Public on the reliance of supply chain of Critical Materials do you consider that our response to the decision to allow huawai with a 5g network that theri government decision crosses the alliance. And with and this specifically looking at cyberattacks. We are divided into two parts really want to be dependent on the Chinese Government when everything goes wrong my argument is probab that the same and then ...

House of representatives before being elected senator. You are a regular, to use for the first and particularly on the u. S. And china relationship. For transparency, you and i have done each other for many, many years. I think prior to you entering politics so thank you very much indeed for your time today. Can i just say on a wider note we are very conscious that we meet during a challenging time for the u. S. Following the tragic death of george floyd. Our thoughts are very much with those im...

Yet over the past few years faced criticism. Many critics on the lift argue that social media giants enjoy special protection. They allow speech without worrying about consequences. Right havecs on the argued that these companies have gone too far in policing these devices or at least two far in policing conservative voices. Criticisms, wese have seen calls to reform this section, and it is these calls that we are going to discuss today, and i often use the phrase, an allstar panel. This time i ...

The 1996 Communications Decency act regarding the content users post on their platforms. The American Enterprise institute hosted the discussion. It is about an hour and a half. Good morning. Event youvec chosen to attend, watch online or view on cspan is should we reform section 230. Off with an interpretive reading of the 1996 commit case and and decency act, provider or user of an Interactive Service shall be treated as a publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information...

Shall be treated as a publisher or speaker of any information provided by a another information content provider. After more than 20 years, since the birth of the internet age as we know it, section 230 has provided websites immunity from what they are users post. Legal and policy framework has allowed for youtube users to upload their own videos, amazon and yelp to offer countless user reviews, and facebook and twitter to offer social networking to billions of internet users. Given the sheer si...

Columbia law school, an expert on antitrust, copyright and Communications Law and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, including the master switch in the curse of bigness. Professor wu has twice been part of the politico list of 50 individuals transforming american politics and was named to the American Academy of arts and sciences in 2017. He received his bachelors of science from mcgill university. Fiona scott morton, a professor at the University School of management. Nationa...

The subcommittee will come to order. I again want to apologize to our witnesses. This is historic action on the house floor that has taken a number of Committee Members away from the committee. But i would like to get started. Our second panel of witnesses, the first witness on our second panel is timothy wu, the julius silver professor of law at columbia law school, an expert on antitrust, copyright and Communications Law and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, including the m...

Good afternoon. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to the second of our series of hearings investigating competition in the Digital Markets. This one on innovation and entrepreneurship. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. 30 years ago the First Software for the worldwide member was released into the Public Domain to create a Global Communications network. Within a few ye...

Congress actually asked the gao to study a number of years ago and even the gao concluded they harm the Public Interest or contravene the ownership rules, time to do this topic to bed. For the people not so deeply steeped in sec lingo, we are talking two way consolidation might take place, two ways the consolidation grows scale. What is a horizontal point which is the combined company would own more stations across the country and therefore cover a large part of the country, the question is what...