CMT Hearing: The World Wild Web: Examining Harms Online

Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection

2025-03-26

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The committee will come to order.  I'd like to, before I begin my opening statement, I would like to yield for a brief moment to the chairman of the full committee.  You're recognized, sir.  Thank you.
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Unknown (SPEAKER_13)
Thank you very much for yielding.  And I just want to set the stage for a second before we get started this morning.  We have a witness at our table today that has received a death threat that I listened to the voicemail.  Someone said he was a   Left-wing anarchists, and you're here, people, if they wanna listen to it on the committee, they're welcome to.
Left-wing anarchists, and you're testifying before Nazis today, and received a death threat for that.  We have our finest on Capitol here with us today, our police officers in the room.  It's not typical.  We're gonna make sure this is a safe.   We're gonna make sure we have a very important discussion in front of us today.  I talked to a mother yesterday, someone's gonna share, that lost her son two weeks ago to suicide because of what was going on to him online.  This is a very serious topic.  Most of the bills before us are bipartisan, and I think all of them are actually.  And it's an issue we all want to address, but we need to make sure we do it in the right tone.  And I know my good friend who's the chairman is gonna make sure this committee does it in the right tone today.   And I appreciate our officers being here.  And I apologize for the witnesses for what you had to go through because you're here to testify for protecting our children.  I know there's been other things as well.  And we just want to apologize for what you've had to go to.  We know you do.  And I've been to the Center for Missing Children.  And what you deal with every day and what you have to deal with is just, it's disturbing.  But it's...   I walked away going, well, I couldn't do that every day, but I'm so happy there are people that are, because you're there protecting our children, and what you see and do every day, and what you have to see what our children go through, and it's just sad.  But I want to just set the tone.

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