Josh Hawley

Do we want 13-year-olds to be having those conversations?

we have a responsibility here now to do our part to make sure that this new technology, which holds a lot of promise but also peril, actually works for the American people.

I'm just talking about protecting kids. This is very simple.

Yes. And again, a regime that is fundamentally evil, that is inflicting the kind of atrocities on its own citizens that you just alluded to, that is doing to the Uyghurs, what it's doing, that it's running modern day concentration…

But your safety architecture didn't stop an adult.

I'd argue more broadly that our economic policy the last 30 years has been downright disastrous for working people.

I don't want any kids to be your guinea pig. I don't want you to learn from their failures.

I don't want 13-year-olds to be your guinea pig.

You'd condemn what the Chinese government's doing to the Uyghurs, and the Xinjiang Province, and all of that?

I don't want 13-year-olds to be your guinea pig.

we don't make the same mistakes that Congress made with social media where, 30 years ago now, Congress basically outsourced social media to the biggest corporations in the world.

I think it's safe to say that all of you are here today because you are opposed to government censorship.

I'm just asking you why we should trust you with our children.

What did the White House do? Well, over a period of years, they met with, on a regular basis, the leaders of social media companies, and demanded that the speech they did not like be taken down.

Yes. And again, a regime that is fundamentally evil, that is inflicting the kind of atrocities on its own citizens that you just alluded to, that is doing to the Uyghurs, what it's doing, that it's running modern day concentration…

They further demanded that these same social media companies amplify the White House's speech.

Is it stored in the United States? Is it stored overseas?

This kind of censorship is un-American, it is unconstitutional, and I hope it will go down as a sad chapter in American history.

Because what the Court of Appeals found is that the White House--not just the Federal Government, but the White House--actively coerced every major social media platform in America.

My impression is that Bing Chat doesn't really have an enforceable age verification.

I'm just asking you why we should trust you with our children.

Do we want 13-year-olds to be having those conversations?

I think it's safe to say that all of you are here today because you are opposed to government censorship.

I don't want 13-year-olds to be your guinea pig.

There's no national security threat that is more significant for the United States than China.