Regulation that protects peoples privacy online and then makes sure that we have robust competition. But that does not impede our innovation or competitive advantage over europe or other nations. I do believe theres a possibility to get that kind of wellcrafted regulation. But candidly, congress has an extraordinary knowledge gap. People here frankly dont understand Technology Well enough. So we need to educate ourselves and then see if we can have well crafted regulation. Second, and equally important, weeb need to extend the promise of Silicon Valley, of job creation and a new economy to communities left out, to communities in rural america, in communities of color, right now, almost every american is a consumer of technology but few get to participate in the creation of these new jobs and new wealth. We have to do a better job of making sure people from around the country can participate and have access to the jobs of the future. Can you give an example of what you mean when you say
He represents much of Silicon Valley. Congressman khanna, as you well know there are a lot of conversations going on legislatively and in the regulatory communities about some of the Tech Companies in Silicon Valley and whether or not they should be more highly regulated. If you could in a general sense before we get into some specific issues, share with us your philosophical thoughts at this time about that. Rep. Khanna two things. First, we definitely need wellcrafted regulation. Regulation that protects peoples privacy online and then makes sure that we have robust competition. But that does not impede our innovation or competitive advantage over europe or other nations. I do believe theres a possibility to get that kind of wellcrafted regulation. But candidly, congress has an extraordinary knowledge gap. People here frankly dont understand Technology Well enough. So we need to educate ourselves and then see if we can have wellcrafted regulation. Second, and equally important, we ne
Who. About last year the editor sent me and my editor how can the internet and the so essentials but yet so insecure . With the sony tax and others this friday to is the attempt to answer that question. Host is the openness of the internet a Security Risk that . Yes. It is interesting. Of nine of them have to do with creating and i found or i gave you could play of the internet. They didnt have the contemporary notion. They were thinking about getting academics, and sharing files zero little worried about the cold war how to penetrate the network but they would attack other internet users. Is the essence of the security and we would have no internet without the way it is but the ability to log on and have that on mind community with no fiction made it what it is today. Host at what point did security become a priority . He can make the case and never has. Where you have gotten is a successive wave pool is in moments of dawning awareness we deal with this in the first piece of the proje
Mr. Timberg, youve written a series over the past several months called the net of insecurity. Whats the goal of this series . Guest well, about this time last year the post executive editor summoned me and my editor to his office and essentially asked us what the hell is wrong with the internet . How can it be so essential to everything in our lives and yet so insecure . This came in the aftermath of the sony hack and quite a few others. And this project is really an attempt to answer that question. Host is the openness of the internet, does it make it a Security Risk . Guest yeah. I mean, its interesting to think about the Big Questions that the people who designed this thing were thinking about. None of them had to do with, you know, someday creating an iphone or anything like it or someday creating a game you could play over the internet. It was all about connecting people. And they didnt have sort of our contemporary notion of vulnerability the way we think of to it. They were thi
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