Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., explains why the senate is calling for social media company bosses to testify on Capitol Hill.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Will outrage continues to grow?
Will outrage continues to grow
following Facebook and twitter
censoring? The Senate is now
calling for the ceos of
Facebook, Twitter and Google to
testify on Capitol Hill
here with what we can expect, one
of the senators grilling the
tech, Ce
Oz, member of the Judiciary
Committee author of the mind of
a conservative woman, Marsha
Blackburn.
What will you want to hear and
what will you be asking these
tech ceos?
Well, they are going to be
coming before us on
October 28th
at Commerce Committee. We had
actually subpoenaed them
unanimous vote from the
committee a couple of weeks ago.
Now they decided to appear
voluntarily.
So what we are looking at, which
section two hundred and thirty and the reforms that
are going to be necessary for
six, two hundred and thirty.
Now this deals with that
liability protection shield that
big tech has been hiding behind
and censoring
using to censor. Conservatives
censor many of our entertainers,
and this is one of the things
that our legislation to online
freedom and viewpoint, diversity,
act, which Chairman wicker and
chairman, Graham, have eached,
joined me in this legislation.
What we would do is turn that
shield back into something that
is transparent by saying here is
when you can use it
here is when you cannot use it
and being explicit in that
also defining who is a cob
tents, creator and moderator
will Senator look who is going
to be coming before you here are
some of the ceos, Jack Doorsy
of Twitter Mark Zuckerberg of
Facebook,
Sundar Pay. Could I of alphabet
and Google many worried about
stepping private company and
regulating speech
you are focusing specifically,
I think, its important for
everybody to understand on
section two hundred and thirty, which provides
liability if you are a neutral
platform and not a publisher,
telling us how you might propose
changes for oversight
here. Is the question senator?
Why not take section two hundred and thirty away?
Why not let these companies be
liable to sue for what they may
or may not plush
thats right
the reason, as we have worked on
this over the last seven years,
the reason you do not take it
away is because you wanted a
competitive marketplace
and section two hundred and thirty was put in place
for new start businesses.
This is something that was put
there in the 1990s as the
internet, and these platforms
were growing.
They are no longer in their
infancy.
Will small companies but no
longer to massive tech
companies
thats right?
Will we look forward to.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-17.