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McBath going in on the OurPact parental control app, which Apple kicked off the store after it introduced Screen Time. (History here: https://t.co/tu9Jn8mF88) — PolitiTweet.org
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Rep McBath asks if Apple has the power to exclude apps from the App Store. Cook says apps have gone from 500 to 1.7 million, "we want every app we can on the platform." — PolitiTweet.org
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Neguse brings up a WSJ story where AWS cloned an AI company. Bezos read the article but "doesn't remember the specifics," asks to get back to the committee. Neguse says he's worried about the "innovation kill zone." — PolitiTweet.org
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Neguse asks if Amazon uses confidential information from AWS to build competing services, references reporting that Amazon engineers targeted growing businesses on AWS. "There may be databases of different kinds and so on where we make our own product in that arena" says Bezos. — PolitiTweet.org
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Neguse now asking Bezos about ecommerce market share. Bezos says "I don't accept that ecommerce is a different market," but says Amazon has 30ish percent share of the "stream." — PolitiTweet.org
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Mood https://t.co/GqgXFCcoG6 — PolitiTweet.org
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Pichai saying families use YouTube and some advertisers target ads to them. Scanlon asks if shows like Sesame Street can block ads for junk food on YouTube. Pichai doesn't have a great answer here, because the answer is no. — PolitiTweet.org
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Rep Scanlon asking about the YouTube acquisition, and knowingly collecting data on children on YouTube. Pichai says Google "takes it very seriously" and says Google flagged and removed close to a million videos. — PolitiTweet.org
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Gaetz is talking about Palmer Luckey, who was badly mistreated by Facebook in the form of being paid millions of dollars to leave. — PolitiTweet.org
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Gaetz really wants Zuck to admit it's possible Facebook disadvantages conservatives, but honestly Zuck is way too good at moderation questions for this to work. — PolitiTweet.org
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Mark Zuckerberg being asked to answer for the claims in a misleading Project Veritas video is very specific kind of karma. — PolitiTweet.org
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Jim Jordan yields to Gaetz, like one bro tossing another a Five Hour Energy. Gaetz has more nonsense questions about Facebook disadvantaging conservatives, which all available data shows is the opposite of what is happening. — PolitiTweet.org
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Demings asks if Apple's own parental control apps led into the decision to restrict the MDM apps. Cook says Apple doesn't get any revenue here, Demings says she wasn't asking about revenue. — PolitiTweet.org
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A Cook question. Deming asks about the removal of parental control apps in 2019. Cook says the use of MDM tech placed kids' data at risk. Demings notes Apple allowed Absher, an MDM app that tracked women in Saudi Arabia. — PolitiTweet.org
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Rep Demings brings up a Zuck email from 2012where he says they enforce policies against competitors more strongly. Zuck says in 2012 they were primarily worried about larger competitors at the time. Demings brings emails debating restricting Pinterest's access and not Netflix. — PolitiTweet.org
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Armstrong asks Pichai about retiring third-party cookies in Chrome and putting other ad marketplaces at risk. "At the danger of being pro-cookie because I am not, does Google have other ways to gather user data that others do not?" Pichai says other browses made the same changes. — PolitiTweet.org
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Armstrong asks if Twitch has licenses for music and DMCA requests. Bezos clearly has no idea how Twitch works, asks to get back to him. — PolitiTweet.org
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Does Amazon allow the use of aggregate data when there are only two sellers of a product? Yes, says Bezos, saying they are investigating the allegations in the WSJ article. — PolitiTweet.org
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And we're back. Rep Armstrong asking Bezos about using data to compete with third-party sellers, says Jayapal's line of question was important. Bipartisanship! — PolitiTweet.org
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CEO group chat gotta be wild rn. Cook pissed that Sundar is a green bubble, Mark complimenting Bezos on not knowing anything about how Amazon works — PolitiTweet.org
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@simplyaMAhzing hearts — PolitiTweet.org
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And we are in a brief recess. So far Tim Cook has been largely spared, but I'm wondering if that's coming next. — PolitiTweet.org
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We've reached the point of the hearing where Jeff Bezos is very sorry for doing all the things Amazon routinely does. — PolitiTweet.org
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Bezos says "counterfeits are a huge problem" and that Amazon works to keep third-party counterfeits off the site as well. Johnson brings up PopSockets again, which Bezos calls "unacceptable." — PolitiTweet.org
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Rep Johnson coming back to hammer Bezos on counterfeit products. The Dems seem very focused on a handful of issues with these companies, and the trends are starting to be clearer. — PolitiTweet.org
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Fox News is routinely the highest-engaged content on Facebook, so much so that Facebook has been pushing back on that fact with other metrics showing more neutrality. Stuebe is just lost on the facts here. — PolitiTweet.org
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Stuebe does not seem to be aware that Facebook employs uhhh Joel Kaplan and Nick Clegg when he demands to know about ideological diversity — PolitiTweet.org
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Stuebe tells Zuck it's proven platforms stifle conservative thought, and asks how Facebook hires content moderators, as though content moderators as a huge secret. — PolitiTweet.org
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Pichai says if a video explicitly states something is a proven cure it'll get taken down. Stuebe does not understand why YouTube is allowed to moderate its own platform. — PolitiTweet.org
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Rep Steube is "going to pick up where I left off," which was an avalanche of pure nonsense. He wants to know why YouTube pulled the debunked hydroxychloroquine video. — PolitiTweet.org
