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Sorry for not attributing all these...exchange is between a Rep whose nameplate isn't vieible and multiple witnesses, primarily Ms. Oyama. "We have harshly cri
by feralchimp 15y ago
Sorry for not attributing all these...exchange is between a Rep whose nameplate isn't vieible and multiple witnesses, primarily Ms. Oyama.
"We have harshly criticized governments whose service providers monitor and censor the actions of their users. [...] How would this legislation affect our diplomacy with nations like Iran, for example?"
"When there are realtime events, it's important that content services allow for infrastructure to support realtime public response to those events."
"This bill hurts both large and small content intermediaries severely, but in different ways."
"We've seen Libyan officials trying to take rivals' YouTube channels out of their national internet stream."
"The Justice Department has new responsibilities under SOPA while at the same time we've been talking about downsizing government. Are we creating an unmeetable burden for U.S. Gov as well as content intermediaries?"