what they do is they employ third parties. users calling in from home to flag objectional content. is that the right approach? i think it is the right approach. under american law, if the companies police the content themselves, they lose their immunity under the communications decency act. sorry for my no problem. i ll go to him for a second while you hold that thought. it s an excellent point. does the law need to change? yes. these companies have no incentive whatsoever to take action. if they know something illegal is happening on their system, then they become liable to stop it as long as they are ignorant, they don t have any commercial legal liability. that is a situation that was designed to protect internet service providers, but at the same time, they ve just created enormous loophole through which terrorists can host their media on youtube. as long as youtube can say we don t know about it, they re not responsible. that cannot be the case.
but there s another case for example in orange county, a little girl who has just written a book. she was sold when she was just 8 years old in egypt and then brought to the united states. and for years, no one noticed that she never left the house and never went to school. happily a neighbor called child protective services and reported the family. and it turned out she was being held in forced labor as a child, domestic worker in the united states. the stories are harrowing. martina, thank you. we re hoping everyone at home chimes in. there is a real opening not just to see something, say something on an individual level but maybe say something, change something on a national level. we re asking all of you to help urge the senate to pass the bipartisan justice for victims of trafficking act. it aims to rescue domestic victims, track down their exploiters, provide additional tools that prosecutors need to change this. sign our petition. it s at ronan daily.msnbc.com. we already have
there has to be an adjustment in the law. no doubt we want to protect these companies and we don t want to make them responsible for, look, jerks who post pad things online. but if companies are deliberately taking policies where they are deliberately ignoring illegal content on their system, something is wrong. and look, the law essentially encourages that. encourages them to turn a blind eye. we get there are difficult, practical questions. we get there are very complex free speech issues but we re talking about a very narrow case that s clearly distinguishable from those gray areas and the kind of thing they know how to police. it s an interesting issue. evan, i want to get more of your thoughts. you are sticking around actually, jeffrey is sticking around for more of the program. thank you to both of you. you all at home have had strong opinions on twitter about this. this is a big contentious debate. should companies like google, twitter, be responsible for filtering out thi
was all being posted on social media. the videos of the rape being posted on social media that they realized they were the victims of an atrocious crime. i can see on your face this is hard to even talk about. it must have been really hard for young jada to talk about herself. was it a tough conversation in the family when she said she wanted to come forward? did you encourage her? did you tell her to be cautious about that? you know, i asked her, i said to her, baby girl, are you sure you want to show your face? you know what she said to me? i m already out there. i want to show my face. i want people to know. i want them behind bars. and to add further insult to injury in this case, there s now a local rap artist who s made a rap song called the jada pose. in this rap song, he s making mockery of jada being raped. so we re seeing now the irresponsibility of those in our hip-hop community that are
names of the teens accused in this case. we haven t independently verified the origin of those original tweets, whether they came from the teenage boys in question. we ll keep track of this as it all sorts out. that wraps things up. thank you all for joining me. the reid report is up ahead. hey pal? you ready?