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>> mike, this gets at another issue that another source of mine once said about three years ago, which is, facebook figure ed out how to get rid of child pornography for the most part and root that out. some of the things they claim they can't touch it's been proven they can. they can regulate some speech if they choose to. they did for a period of time. they do control -- they have a monopoly on global communications it appears when you look at whatsapp and instagram and what happens when they go down. does this not basically open the -- not a red carpet for government regulation? >> you know...

Hours, an outage that caused disruption well beyond social media, global disruption for many who use whatsapp and facebook for retail sales. big question facing lawmakers of today's hearing, what to do about the dangers that are posed by the social media giant. haugen suggested in her testimony the regulators, lawmakers and the public need a better understanding of how the company operates before it figures out how to regulate it. >> no one truly understand the destructive choices made by facebook except facebook. we can afford nothing less than full transparency. as long as facebook is operat...

And again made the point are responsible for cur raitting things she said leads to bullying, politicians taking positions that make no sense but spread widely on facebook and leads even to terrible crimes in countries like ethiopia, chuck. >> jacob, the other thing that happened yesterday, it turned out to be a coincidence but in some ways may have unintentionally made the argument that facebook is a potential monopoly, and that is the fact that it had a server problem that knocked facebook, instagram, and whatsapp all off line which had a global impact and again, i think it sent the message a...

Defining its scope and influence in our lives and monetary terms or in any other terms. what we saw pretty clearly during the five hours of the total blackout on all its products, you're talking about not just losing the opportunity to waste time on facebook, you're talking about family members not able to communicate across borders on whatsapp, one of the primary ways the communities communicate across countries. you had instagram totally unable to do what they do, and so any argument that facebook may have made in the past about we are not an infrastructure, we do not have that kind of monop...

But, you know, facebook is arguing this is just -- there's nothing we can do about it. that's just not true. they will spend billions and billions and billions of because they want to protect this ecosystem that has generated profits never seen in the history of the world. we have got to get control of this. this is dangerous for our democracy, dangerous for young people, dangerous for our public health and we have a responsibility to do something about it and we've done that work and the antitrust subcommittee and more work remains to be done for sure. >> the outage yesterday, the outage that...