peter: elizabeth nolan brown of reason, have consumers been harmed in your view? elizabeth: i don't think so. i'm not saying that any of these companies are perfect. there are individual things that any of these amazon, facebook, google, whatever are doing wrong. but i think these are not antitrust violations because they are not things where, well, we talked about the older antitrust violations. making deals that explicitly harm consumers. and these are things that, with these companies, they're not doing that. they're not acting in this old-school antitrust white. -- way. like content moderation. sometimes they're harming people that get off the website. but the alternative is not letting anybody say anything on websites, and that would also harm consumers. so, you know, it's really, i think a lot of people have been defining decisions they make as harm when there's not evidence to support that, especially because consumers can go elsewhere. in all of these cases, it's not like a telephone company or your local electric company, where often you have this one choi

. >> host: elizabeth nolan brown is on your screen.he is a senior editor with "reason" magazine and she has a recent cover story for the publication, "the bipartisan antitrust crusade against big tech." ms. brown, if you could first of all tell us about the philosophy of "reason" magazine. >> guest: "reason" magazine is an explicit libertarian magazine focused on politics and culture. we are not representative of the libertarian hunting. we represent a big tent sort of skeptical of increased government power in all sorts of rounds, both economic and social or civil liberties rounds. >> host: overall how are each of the parties attacking big tech in the sense in the antitrust sense treasure it's interesting because both of the parties, republicans democrats have been attacking big tech from all sorts of ankles, and at the trust is just one of them. they are both coalesced on we need tougher antitrust laws, use more antitrust enforcement in order to go after tech companies but they both have very different reasons for doing so even thoug

peter: elizabeth nolan brown is on your screen. e is an editor with reason magazine and she has a recent cover story for that publication, the bipartisan antitrust crusade against big tech. ms. brown, if you could, first of all, tell us about the philosophy of reason magazine. elizabeth: reason magazine is an especially libertarian magazine focused on politics and culture. we're not a member of the libertarian policy, -- pty

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announcer: watch the communicators with elizabeth nolan brown on her recent article "the bipartisan antitrust crusade against big tech" saturday at 630 been p.m. eastern on c-span -- 6:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. british prime minister boris johnson addressed the government's plan to ease covid-19 restrictions beginning on july 19. he also gave an update on vaccination efforts. his remarks, from earlier today. >> we now come to questions. >> mr. speaker, today marks the 16th anniversary of the 7/7 london bombings. we remember the a 52 innocent people who lost their lived and those uninjured and pay tribute to the city's emergency services for their heroic response. i'm sure the whole house wishes to join me in sending condolences to u.k.'s first black female police officer who died earlier this week. she was a u.k.'s first black-- the u.k. 's first black police officer. i'm sure colleagues will also want to join he in wishing the english football team the best of luck. [inaudible] in the final against denmark. i had meetings with others, and in addition to my duties in this house, i will have

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. >> watch "the communicators" with elizabeth nolan brown on her recent article, the bipartisan antitrustsade against big tech, saturday on c-span. >> former president donald trump announced wednesday he is taking legal action against facebook, google and twitter for censoring his free-speech. the former president has been permanently banned from twitter and suspended indefinitely from facebook and instagram for a post he made about the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol. he spoke about the lawsuit at his golf resort in bedminster, new jersey. [applause] former president trump: thank you very much. i appreciate that. thank you, everybody. i want to say that i stand for you this morning to announce a very important and beautiful development for our freedom of speech and that goes

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. >> elizabeth nolan brown on her recent article the bipartisan antitrust crusade against big tech, tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2. >> for a monday morning roundtable discussion on the topic of critical race theory, we're joined once again this morning by resident fellow with the american enterprise institute and an assistant professor and studies director. good morning to you both. last week critical race theory getting a lot of attention in part because the heads of major teachers union defending educators who teach it in the classroom. begin the discussion with first explaining exactly what critical race theory is but also how prevalent it is in american classrooms today. >> good morning. so happy to be back. just thinking about what critical race theory is, i have a simpler definition, if you will. it is a framework to analyze and challenge racism and structures, processes, and discourses, and simply put, it helps us to notice, helps us to see the ways that systemic racism operate and the ways that it is embedded in structures and processes that occur in the united states. and so t

. >> watch "the comientors" with elizabeth nolan brown on her recent article "the bipartisan antitrustagainst big tech" tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> the secret service was founded in the aftermath of the assassination of abraham lincoln but it wasn't until the of john f. kennedy that the presidential protection service began to get attention from the american public. carol linick began reporting on them in 2012. in the prologue of her new book, she wrote she start herd coverage on "hooker-gate" where credit service brought prostitutes to their hotel room while making arrangements for president obama to visit cart hay in as. >> carol leonnig on this episode of c-span plus, listen wherever you get your podcasts. >> weekends on c-span2 are an intellectual feast. every saturday find events and people that explore our nation's past. on american history tv. on sundays, book tv brings you the late nest nonfick books and authors. it's television for serious readers. learn. discover. explore. weekends on c-span2. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. funded by these televis

. >> watched the communicators with elizabeth nolan brown on her recent article, the bipartisan antitrust crusade against big tech, saturday on c-span. ♪ >> president biden announced u.s. military operations in afghanistan will officially conclude by the end of august, almost 20 years from the time they initially started. he spoke in more detail about the u.s. troop withdrawal before answering questions from white house reporters. this is about 30 minutes.

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. >> watch the communicators with elizabeth nolan brown come on her article against big tech.aturday on c-span at 6:30 p.m. eastern. >> washington journal continues. host: our first guest is david gantz, with -- a professor of law emeritus at the university of arizona. anchor for joining us this morning. guest: my pleasure. host: we are under, when it comes to trade concerns, something called the u.s. fda. it is the one year anniversary. could you remind people about not only what the new trade agreement is, but what brought on its, i guess, what led to it being created? caller: a number of forces there. basically this is a revised version of the north american free trade agreement that was in effect beginning in january, 1994. that agreement was negotiated in 1991 or 1992 and in many respects was seriously out of date. there also was a lot of political opposition to nafta on both sides of the aisle, and the previous administration, some logic that a new version would be attractive to a wide swath of members of congress, members of the public as well. host: some of the specifi

program that deals with digital policy issues, "the communicators," scheduled for this week, elizabeth nolan brownking about a recent article, the bipartisan antitrust crusade against big tech, this coming saturday at 6:30, you can see it then and online as well. a lot of other content when it comes to digital media companies , particularly in the area of the program where there is 800 plus programs archived at the web -- the website. rodney, indiana, independent line. caller: yes, sir, how are you this morning? host: fine, thank you. caller: calling and because two of the biggest problems with the censorship online is that these social media companies now have lobbying power as well as there is no alternative to the big three that is facebook, twitter, and youtube. the same way for big years we watched big pharmaceutical companies donate to certain candidates and help them get elected and then receive certain benefits because of that, we are now watching a silicon valley that has a tired enough wealth to do the same thing. to the point that some of your callers have made about it seeming politica

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. >> watch "the communicators" with reason magazines elizabeth nolan brown on her recent article "theartisan antitrust crusade" saturday at 6:30 p.m. on c-span. ♪ >> weekends on c-span 2 are an intellectual feast. every saturday you find events and people that explore our nation's past on american history tv. on sunday, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. learn. discover. explore. weekends on c-span 2. "washington journal" continues. host: joining us brandon weichert, the author of "winning space, how america remains a superpower." the founder and editor of the weichert report. guest: it is a pleasure to be here. host: the weichert report, what is that? guest: my collection of op ads for various publications and my original insights and analyses of various technology and geopolitical issues and how emerging technologies impacting grand strategy and the geopolitical environment to host: thank you for explaining that. we are here to discuss a recent report from the national intelligence director. aerial phenomena, some may refer to them as ufo's. talk about th

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