Thread by @lutherlowe

The tech hearing is delayed 30 minutes.

The committee just sent out a note that the hearing start is now delayed to 1pm. There is also a rumor that Jordan now plans to appear & kick off the hearing with lots of procedural motions to create delay. The show may not really get going until 2 or so. 🤷🏼‍♂️

If I were Chair of a subcommittee doing a hearing with the #BigTechBarons, I'd require them to use this as a green screen

We're live! @LinaMKhan cameo!

Hey @ratemyskyperoom going to need you to weigh in here, pronto. #BigTechHearing

.@davidcicilline opens up with a question to Pichai citing @celebnetworth story. Check out @adrjeffries piece on this theoutline.com/post/1399/how-… also check her story yesterday in @themarkup #BigTechHearing

:)

Here's the episode @davidcicilline was referring to. This was written by FTC staff investigating it at the time. #BigTechHearing. The docs came out after FTC inadvertently released every other page of their confidential memo in response to a FOIA request. wsj.com/articles/insid…

This is incredible. Bipartisan. We've come a long way from Schumer/Schmidt 2011 #BigTechHearing

Based on this exchange, it seems like Google CEO Sundar Pichai *really* does not want to answer questions about local search. Perhaps because there are no good answers? 😬

At the 3 hour mark of #BigTechHearing/#BigTechBarons, here is question count broken out by CEO and party (h/t @natpurser)

Cook
8D
2R
Bezos
27D
3R
Zuckerberg
17D
7R
Pichai
16D
19R

Generally speaking, I'm surprised and encouraged. This is a productive hearing.

Great that @RepMGS brought up Larry Page. He's still the most powerful person at Alphabet/Google and he should be a part of this hearing. @davidcicilline told @reckless he agreed a few weeks ago. #BigTechHearing

I may be biased but I think Bezos is doing pretty well & is coming across as the most relaxed/human. <ducks>

Hi @RepGregSteube it appears Mr. Pichai may have purjered himself in response to your last question.

https://twitter.com/amir/status/1288592362462035968?s=21

https://twitter.com/amir/status/1288592362462035968

Sundar correcting himself after the fact reminds me of this 2011 cleanup after Eric Schmidt lied to Congress by claiming Google didn’t create a competing Yelp clone in the form of an undeletable app. #BigTechHearing

🚨 It looks like the internal company documents which informed much of the Google questioning are officially in the public domain 🚨judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…

This was the final tally @NatPurser and I got on Qs by CEO/party

Cook
25D
4R
29total
Bezos
44D
13R
57total
Zuckerberg
45D
15R
60total
Pichai
29D
29R
58total

In total, according to the back-of-envelope tracking, Democratic Members of the Antitrust Subcommittee asked 143 questions while the Republicans only asked 61. #BigTechHearing