"opening statement"
"These platforms are obviously far too powerful. They are making the American people, all of us, dogmatic and intolerant."
"What I am proposing is rather simple. If the White House is going to demand that Facebook censor accurate information about COVID vaccine side effects, which it did do, then it would need to immediate..."
"The censorship the First Amendment prohibits is government attempting to restrict or compel private actors to speak in a particular way."
"So in fact we saw that last week when committee members flagged and condemned TikTok content that appeared to threaten violence to our Members."
"Government-censored--sponsored censorship has no place in our country. It never will."
"In fact, the First Amendment protects private-sector tech companies in their right to determine what to leave up and what to take down on their platform."
"Now, also, if we were to treat these tech platforms as state actors and require that they keep up all constitutionally protected speech, the internet would be even worse, particularly for teenagers, f..."
"The First Amendment is a key part of what makes America exceptional and distinguishes us from so many other countries around the world, especially our foreign adversaries."
"It is critical that we make the ACA subsidy expansions permanent and build on the success of the Inflation Reduction Act to further lower drug prices for consumers."
"It is well documented that social media platforms have helped facilitate drug sales, influence teenagers to engage in dangerous and deadly behavior, incite a violent mob, to election denialism and hat..."