{"id":1204762,"date":"2023-11-20T13:02:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1204762"},"modified":"2023-11-20T13:02:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T18:02:06","slug":"tech-ceos-are-set-to-testify-in-a-senate-online-child-sexual-exploitation-hearing-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1204762","title":{"rendered":"Tech CEOs are set to testify in a Senate online child sexual exploitation hearing in December"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on online child sexual exploitation on December 6 and the CEOs of major tech companies are set to testify. The committee expects<\/a> Meta<\/a> CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his counterpart at TikTok<\/a>, Shou Zi Chew, to testify voluntarily. It also wants to hear from the CEOs of X<\/a> (formerly Twitter), Discord<\/a> and Snap<\/a>, and it has issued subpoenas to them.<\/p>\n

“Big Tech\u2019s failure to police itself at the expense of our kids cannot go unanswered,” committee chair Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and ranking member Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said in a joint statement, as Reuters<\/em><\/a> reports. “I\u2019m hauling in Big Tech CEOs before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify on their failure to protect kids online,” Durbin wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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JUST ANNOUNCED: Senate Judiciary Committee will press Big Tech CEOs on their failures to protect kids at hearing on Dec 6.<\/p>\n

Subpoenas issued to CEOs of Discord, Snap, & X. Committee remains in discussion w\/ Meta, TikTok\u2014expects their CEOs will agree to testify voluntarily.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Senate Judiciary Committee (@JudiciaryDems) November 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

According to the committee, X and Discord refused to accept service of the subpoenas on their CEO’s behalf, “requiring the committee to enlist the assistance of the US Marshals Service” to serve them personally. “We have been working in good faith to participate in the Judiciary committee\u2019s hearing on child protection online as safety is our top priority at X,” Wifredo Fernandez, head of US and Canada government affairs at X, told Engadget in a statement. “Today we are communicating our updated availability to participate in a hearing on this important issue.” Engadget has also contacted Discord for comment.<\/p>\n

The issue of tech platforms allegedly facilitating harms against kids has become an increasingly pressing issue. Earlier this month, former Meta executive Arturo B\u00e9jar testified<\/a> that Zuckerberg failed to respond to his email detailing concerns about harms facing children on the company’s platforms. Senators then demanded documents<\/a> from the company’s CEO “related to senior executives\u2019 knowledge of the mental and physical health harms associated with its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram.”<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tech-ceos-are-set-to-testify-in-a-senate-online-child-sexual-exploitation-hearing-in-december-180206072.html?src=rss
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The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on online child sexual exploitation on December 6 and the CEOs of major tech companies are set to testify. The committee expects Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his counterpart at TikTok, Shou … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,110],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-1204762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-engadget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}