Richard Blumenthal

Nothing more than the bare minimum controls for parents.

I know everybody thinks of me as a very nice guy, but I am going to be ruthless.

Thank you, Senator Cantwell. Thanks for your excellent work on this issue and your help and support in these hearings.

I agree, enforceability is incredibly important. Without enforcement, it is just words.

Shouldn't kids in the United States have protection as good as the kids in UK enjoy?

Shouldn't we have a similar rule in the United States?

Congress should pass the bipartisan Children's and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act authored by Senator Markey.

What really stuns me is the lack of action.

The trust is gone. What we need now is independent researchers, objective overseers not chosen by big tech but from outside.

We have heard some pretty powerful and compelling evidence about the dangers of big tech to children's health.

Instagram is addictive. That is the view that has been repeated again and again and again by people who are experts in this field.

The days of absolute broad unique immunity for big tech are over.

Facebook knows about the harm, it has done the research, the studies, the surveys repeatedly, it knows the destructive consequences of the algorithms and designs.

These simple time management and parental oversight tools should have, they could have, been announced years ago.

I am going to be strict on the 5-minute time limit.

We really appreciate your being here, Mr. Mosseri.

Why should kids in the UK be better protected than kids in the United States?

I think we need legislation on privacy, to protect the enormous amounts of data that are collected on kids, on transparency to show what these algorithms are doing.

There is no excuse for it. But it dramatically shows one of the key failings of Instagram and a lot of these tech platforms, which is they have no responsiveness to parents, or anyone else reporting this toxic addictive content that is…

Shouldn't children and parents have the right to report dangerous material abuse and get a response? Get some action.

Thank you, Mr. Krug, talking about the popcorn business, is popcorn as you manufacture and ship it, a perishable item?

And those holds are Republican holds on nominees to the DOT?

So it is really a quality of work rather than a workforce shortage?

Do you think that with these changes in the quality of work and more skilled training, we can meet what people commonly call the workforce shortage, but really is not a shortage of people willing to work, it is the other factors that go…

How has the pandemic affected the popcorn business, if I may ask?