Advancement of science and art. Pleasure to welcome you to our historic great hall as we commemorate a profound and lasting expression of political conviction that took place in this room exactly 160 years ago today. As you saw moments ago, the great hall occupies an important place in the fabric of our city. Sitting here tonight you are not only occupying a seat where, on this day in 1860, new yorkers listened to a thenlittleknown statesman from illinois deliver a speech that would not only alter the course of his life but would impact the future of our. Ation since that day scores of individuals have filled your seats, eager to discuss the issues that define who we are as a country tonight you have a seat to another perspective on americas next chapter, inspired by the man who would reunite the country after the most divided period of its history and preserve the Great American experience. Abraham lincoln later viewed his Cooper Union Speech as the turning point to his eventual elect
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Government is contemplating isnt going to just let facebook off the hook for policing free free speech its its going to possibly wipe out free on line speech entirely you see on wednesday this week u. S. Attorney william barr convened a workshop featuring many of the Tech Companies critics to explore potential changes to section 230 of the Communications Decency act which was passed back in 1996 and that is a long time critic of section 230. 00 attorney general barsa could instruct his Justice Department to explore ways to limit the provision which per tax on Line Companies from liability for User Generated Content meanwhile the kings of Silicon Valley are quickly realizing that all is now well with their worker bees as this week we also saw these circus storm the ramparts one that workers at the crowdfunding platform kickstarter made history on tuesday when they voted to unionize making them the 1st in the industry to do so. What a day what a week in Silicon Valley online free speech
The. 10 year period of 0 money velocity where money has gone directly into the pockets of the few oligarchs and countries of doors of america and around the world into the silence like these other 2500000000 dollars property when they when the infrastructure for that starts to crack and the liquidity starts to see. You get inflation for real stuff like so and were seeing this happen now where people are noticing that the cost of every day living is starting to spike. Greetings and salyut ation all right lets kick things off in the world of Silicon Valley hawk watchers where billionaire facebook c. E. O. Your friend and mine Mark Zuckerberg traveled to germany recently to attend the Munich Security Conference because if there is one thing you think of when you hear the name zucker berg. Security right guess speaking at the conference these are bergen self commented from up on high about the regulation of content on social media telling the audience quote we dont want private Companies M