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We tried. What came out of committee was depressing. I testified in the House Judiciary Committee on the limited exception for intentional sex trafficking. You reallyd cant comprehend it. The lawyers will be riskaverse. Opposed tonitely not section 230 changes. I think they need to be really careful and deliberate and not some legislative compromise that gets attached to an appropriations bill right before the december recess. That is not what we want. It is jims proof of concept. I am a pollyan...

Cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Host we would like to welcome a new face to the communicators, congressman jerry mcnerney, a democrat from california. Hes a member of the energy and Commerce Committee as well as cochair of the Artificial Intelligence caucus. Welcome to the communicators and thanks for being here. Guest a pleasure to be here. Host i want to start with an issue thats in the news this week, and thats the ...

Host this week on the communicators, it is a tech policy roundtable with three working journalists. We look ahead to the fall and what congress and executive agencies may be doing when it comes to executive policy. Our panel begins with Emily Birnbaum of the hill. Ashley gold of the information and Alexander Levine of politico. Facebook, what is going on with that case . Thank you for having me. The ftcs 5 billion with 5 billion settlement with facebook opted by the cambridge has dividedandal wa...

The hill, we also have ashley gold of the information and Alexandra Levine of politico. Ms. Levine, first question to you. Facebook has seen a lot of attention in this town the last couple of months. Do we expect what is going on with that case and do we expect further attention . Thank you for having me. Great to be here but 5 million settlement with facebook was a combination of this long privacy probe by the Cambridge Analytic data scandal was in washington so on one hand you have republicans...

What is your take on that . California is one of them. California is a google based company. We want to look at how it is doing its business practices. Its important to do it in a very thoughtful way. I know that the department of justice and the federal Commission Also talking about doing investigations and competitive practices of these companies, and its good to look at this and make sure the companies are behaving. Im not sure breaking companies up is a good idea. Big companies with a lot of...

The 1996 Communications Decency act regarding the content users post on their platforms. The American Enterprise institute hosted the discussion. It is about an hour and a half. Good morning. Event youvec chosen to attend, watch online or view on cspan is should we reform section 230. Off with an interpretive reading of the 1996 commit case and and decency act, provider or user of an Interactive Service shall be treated as a publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information...

Shall be treated as a publisher or speaker of any information provided by a another information content provider. After more than 20 years, since the birth of the internet age as we know it, section 230 has provided websites immunity from what they are users post. Legal and policy framework has allowed for youtube users to upload their own videos, amazon and yelp to offer countless user reviews, and facebook and twitter to offer social networking to billions of internet users. Given the sheer si...

Colorado college and in this class in particular, we look at the making of the u. S. Drug war and how it relates to prohibition in the legalization of cannabis and how that impacts consumer access to this particular substance. Ive been doing research on the drug war and cannabis for the last two decades, so you get to join us today on hours tour of the last 100 years of drug policy. Alexa remember yesterday we talked a little bit about the impact of culture and science on the approach to medicin...

Little love for libra. And how amazon plans to take on its new highend echo speaker. We begin with that fresh facebook news. The ftc has approved a privacy settlement with the social media giant, fining facebook about 5 billion. This marks the most significant axiom yet against facebook over a series and send the company reeling from one crisis to another. I want to bring in kurt waggoner, who covers facebook for us. He joins us on the phone. In washington we have naomi, who covers corporate inf...

Little love for libra. To take onzon plans its new highend echo speaker. Begin with that fresh facebook news. The ftc has approved a privacy settlement with the social media giant, fining facebook about 5 billion. This marks the most significant axiom yet against facebook over a series and send the company reeling from one crisis to another. I want to bring in kurt waggoner, who covers facebook for us. He joins us on the phone. In washington we have naomi, who covers corporate influence. We know...