I am delighted to now introduce the board of trustees, Jacob Weisberg, who has been involved in the internet before we knew what it was since 1996. Eer in then a pionw field and what we talked about how to take on the topic whouding experts and people signed Net Neutrality and their eyes glazed over and we got the perfect person would be Jacob Weisberg so over to you. Thank you. Want to think of the fordham system for sponsoring this event. We are going to do way better than have your eyes glaze over. A hallucination of this interesting and lively and very urgent issue. I want to briefly introduce the panel and then give them a chance to make Opening Statements and will mix it up and save time for questions. I will start with my old friend micah sifry and i know him going back to when he was a writer for the nation. That he works for the democracy for and author of a new book called the big disconnect. Agree with the premise. To my left is tim wu, you may recognize him from his recent
Of canadian journalists and they will not like that, but i want to thank you for challenging us to reinvigorate ourselves and our purpose in this country. Glen greenwald, thank you very much. Thank you. Really appreciate it. [applause. ] thanks so much. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, good night everybody. A a discussion on internet regulations between content providers and service providers. And then a form on internet privacy. After that, president obama announces his nominee for attorney general. Cspan been veterans day coverage begins Tuesday Morning at 8 30 eastern during washington journal with an interview with American Legion director. And then it can 00, the annual uso gala. At 10 00, the annual uso gala. To the annual wreathlaying cemetery at the tomb of the unknowns. Afternoon, a discussion on a Veterans Mental Health issues, and that a selection from the medal of honor ceremonies. The fcc is considering a plan that would allow the agency to regulate how internet flows betw
You can construct that, it is not how it is going to work out. It pays compacts and its next competitor, these are for profit companies. They are not evil but theyd do favor whoever has more money. And it is quite a long there. There are a few spaces left in American Society and smaller speakers had a decent chance. And and it Consumer Experience will get worse. It has to run and so the consumer will stay in the end whether it was by seeing more ads, and raising money more frequently. It is exactly the kind of content, there is no profit model, people rely on it, why did that go any faster for any money. I didnt hear and the question of any of you, is the amazon dispute relevant here . Because here you have a monopoly with vast market power, discriminating against specific content down to the level of individual they gave paul ryan a pass. It was a commercial dispute but they now have the power to do significant harm, isnt that there is no net new trolleys that applies or could apply t
President obama not in washington dc this week. And australia. Ia his First Official stop is today for the economic conference. He will meet chinese president xi jinping. On friday at bilateral meeting with the burmese president and a separate meeting with the Opposition Leader there. He is expected to deliver a major policy address. On his keep you updated trip here on the cspan networks. Awaiting action in the house, federal spending for the 2014 fiscal spending. New members begin orientation on senatey and then in the votes are expected on judicial nominations and a childcare block program. You can watch the house live here on cspan and the senate on our companion network. The secretary Veterans Administration is set to announce a Major Overhaul to make it easier for millions of patients to seek care. The department is going to aim to simplify the process of getting into the system, streamlining any streamlining nine different structures. Thatecretary acknowledged employees must be
There are few marred huge margins for white voters. Hard to win statewide, even in a state with a strong minority population. The democratic chair of the white vote was down share of the white vote was down since 2008. That is a problem for the problem. For the party. There are still a lot of white voters here. Back to your point about the specific candidate you cant take anything for granted. We want to talk about statelevel Ballot Initiatives as well as some a local elections, and measures at local levels, but i want to make sure we have time for a couple of questions right now. As far as the gubernatorial elections or the state elections, yes . As far as the demographics, the republicans were mores bread out the republicans were more spread out, what is the distribution . How did the distribution affect this years races . One reason is we thought that this year was not going to be a wave of election is because republicans would have the rural vote and places like kansas. We talk abo