>> thank you. >> thank you. [background noises] >> tonight on the communicators microsoft president brad smith co-author of the new book "tools and weapons" the promise and peril of the digital age. >> we need businesses in the tech center to step up have much self regulation and higher commitment to responsibility. we do think we need more regulation of technology. think about how we live our lives. if you go to the grocery store you pick something up off the shelf, you will read the nutrition label knowing it is standardized and accurate because of regulation. if you go over to the pharmacy department and buy a product you don't worry about the safety of it because it's regulated. when you get in your car it complies with certain safety standards same is true of an

airplane. our basic point is digital technology has gone longer with less regulation than almost any technology since the middle of the 1800s. we think the market, customers, and even the industry itself would be better served for the long-term with a different balance. >> wash the communicators tonight on cspan2. >> c-span's "washington journal" five every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up tuesday morning will discuss supreme court oral arguments in cases involving president trump financing with "washington post" reporter robert barnes and the discussion to reopen the u.s. economy during the kobe 19 pandemic with roy president of the foundation for research on equal opportunity. they will talk with numerous democratic congress about the

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