It's unfortunate that Federal agencies that are subject to cargo preference have blocked MARAD from even writing, much less implementing, the cargo preference enforcement regulations Congress mandated in 2009.

You did not just consult them to understand how they affected public health, you actually censored on their behalf.

Is it appropriate for Facebook to work with the United States government to avoid the First Amendment, help the U.S. Government avoid the First Amendment?

Is there not a difference between you, as a platform, putting forward information, and censoring your users at the behest of the White House, the Administration more broadly, and the CDC? Is there not a distinction there?

That sounds like a yes to me. I think that is news.

You are a walking security nightmare. For every American who uses this app, I am concerned.

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You will not answer that.

You are saying you do not know? But you do know your leadership is not but you do not know about your employees.

But apparently, though, you do look at political affiliation because you are quite willing to sit here and tell me that no one who has strategic input or makes strategic decisions is a member of the Chinese Communist Party.

Why did it start happening, do you think, as soon as you left?

I find it hard to believe that suddenly Facebook became an entirely different entity and was interfacing with the United States government in an entirely different way only when COVID happened.

I have a bill, and it has actually passed the House, that stops the nonsense.

You have employees in China and ByteDance has employees in China.

I think, for my own point of view, that is a huge security problem.

Took steps to coordinate, by which you mean to censor the speech of ordinary Americans at the best of the President of the United States and his Administration.

I mean, I don't know if we could have gotten better than Graves or Timmons, you know, as vice chairs.

We cannot wait any longer while MARAD is bullied into a position of non-compliance with the law.