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We tried. What came out of committee was depressing. I testified in the House Judiciary Committee on the limited exception for intentional sex trafficking. You reallyd cant comprehend it. The lawyers will be riskaverse. Opposed tonitely not section 230 changes. I think they need to be really careful and deliberate and not some legislative compromise that gets attached to an appropriations bill right before the december recess. That is not what we want. It is jims proof of concept. I am a pollyanna. I am always happy to help. I will not give up on the enterprise. That is what you were talking a...

Cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Host we would like to welcome a new face to the communicators, congressman jerry mcnerney, a democrat from california. Hes a member of the energy and Commerce Committee as well as cochair of the Artificial Intelligence caucus. Welcome to the communicators and thanks for being here. Guest a pleasure to be here. Host i want to start with an issue thats in the news this week, and thats the state attorneys general investigating google especially for antitrust. Whats your take on that . Gue...

Host this week on the communicators, it is a tech policy roundtable with three working journalists. We look ahead to the fall and what congress and executive agencies may be doing when it comes to executive policy. Our panel begins with Emily Birnbaum of the hill. Ashley gold of the information and Alexander Levine of politico. Facebook, what is going on with that case . Thank you for having me. The ftcs 5 billion with 5 billion settlement with facebook opted by the cambridge has dividedandal washington. On one hand you have republicans and Industry Groups saying the meantlion fine, that it fa...

The hill, we also have ashley gold of the information and Alexandra Levine of politico. Ms. Levine, first question to you. Facebook has seen a lot of attention in this town the last couple of months. Do we expect what is going on with that case and do we expect further attention . Thank you for having me. Great to be here but 5 million settlement with facebook was a combination of this long privacy probe by the Cambridge Analytic data scandal was in washington so on one hand you have republicans and Industry Groups saying that the 5 billiondollar fine because its the largest go down in history...

What is your take on that . California is one of them. California is a google based company. We want to look at how it is doing its business practices. Its important to do it in a very thoughtful way. I know that the department of justice and the federal Commission Also talking about doing investigations and competitive practices of these companies, and its good to look at this and make sure the companies are behaving. Im not sure breaking companies up is a good idea. Big companies with a lot of tentacles. A lot of employees. If you break a company up like that, there will be unintended conseq...