07/08/2013
https://congress.gov...
"These multinational corporations now respond to pressures that do not necessarily align with American values, so we need to examine how and why content is being blocked, filtered, or prioritized."
"Although we often refer to the world on the other side of the screen as the virtual world, we are seeing that, when things go wrong, the real-world impacts on our privacy, finances, knowledge base, an..."
"We are seeing the pressure turned up on the tech companies that often serve as the new town squares for our public discourse."
"opening statement"