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Hearing — am glad that we are having this hearing today. big tech has transformed the information super highway— transformed the information super highway into a super spread of harmful— highway into a super spread of harmful content, invasive surveillance practices and addictive and damaging design features. data is and damaging design features. data is ijil and damaging design features. data is big tech's most valuable commodity and by collecting far more user data _ commodity and by collecting far more user data than they need, big tech platforms — user data than they need, big tech...

Control— use it as an element of social control and influence peddling and worse _ control and influence peddling and worse. and as i detailed in this committee last year, when he passed the online _ committee last year, when he passed the online privacy law, the harms to children— the online privacy law, the harms to children are — the online privacy law, the harms to children are very serious. and demand — children are very serious. and demand swift action. big tech platforms profit immensely from keeping — platforms profit immensely from keeping children addicted. they do not care...

Live. are they going toic tathe interview undo, a message below twitter, this information, the fbi, are they colluding with misinformation? i don't get it. >> clay: will somebody come and grab me and tackle me out of the screen. that is what facebook and twitter and all the big tech platforms did when you raised simple, factual observation. it seems crazy that where we know they were doing gain of function research on the coronavirus, literally next door virtually, they're going to argue, it came out of this wet market from an animal and not from the gain of function research. look, the other ...

Proven quality sleep. only from sleep number. right now the supreme court is hearing a case that could have a major impact on the future of the internet. the family of the only american killed in the paris terror attack in 2015 is suing google. they are arguing the company promotes and profits from extremist content posted on youtube. a decision against google would have sweeping implications on the liability shields that so far protected big tech platforms from lawsuits. >> these are not, like, the nine greatest experts on the

Owns. >> this would have some liability on the big tech platforms. and brian fung, you are listening to the oral arguments and what have we missed? >> this case has the potential to transform the internet. it is a case about whether youtube can be sued for the recommendations that it posts on its website urging, or recommending that people watch videos produced by the terrorist group isis. the plaintiffs in the case have argued that google should be held legally responsible for recommending these videos, but google says it should not be able to be sued because of section 230 of the communicati...