Political Quotes

“Mr. President, last week, the executives of some of the largest tech companies in the United States came before the U.S. Senate. And the world got to see, with all too vivid detail, just what these companies and these executives are doing to our children. And I say ``children'' advisedly. I am talking about 12- and 13- and 14- and 15-year-old kids on these platforms--on Facebook, on Instagram, on SNAP--who are exposed to the most outrageous, unbelievable, grotesque, and vivid child sex abuse material known to mankind: images of exploitation, solicitations by pedophiles. It is unbelievable, indescribable material. And these platforms are absolutely awash with it. And we saw it last week. We heard the testimony. It was so bad that Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Meta, actually felt forced to apologize to the parents there in the room and the parents across this country who have lost their children to suicide, whose children have suffered extraordinary harm because of the sex abuse material, the exploitative content that is all over Meta, that is all over these platforms. And oh, by the way, they are making an astounding profit. These companies are the most profitable companies in the world. They are the biggest companies in the history of the world. Facebook's share prices actually went up the day after Zuckerberg's testimony. It is unbelievable. Here they are making money hand over fist on destroying America's children. The numbers tell the tale.…”