Putting out fires if you qualify you posted put it out that far more importantly when you think about ways to avoid those fires being led to the skating into the forest in the 1st place and all of the systems and the understanding the technology needed to do that is all in place we just need resources to be able to implement it better and to ensure that the rules that brazil already have has really ready were world class environmental legislation that is in full and if it wasnt forced and if founders were properly supported especially farmers who have no choice of which is not the main source of the problem but they need support as well in order to ensure that that practices can continue insisting the way to be garnered joining us from stockholm to i thank you so much for your time thank you very much for having me on the emergency in the amazon of course stretches beyond brazil nearly one and a half 1000000 hectares of tropical rainforest in both. Livia have been destroyed as well the
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 content provider. For more than 20 years since the birth of the internet age as we know it, section 230 has provided websites from immunity for what their users post. The Electronic Frontier foundation describes the importance of section 230 this way, this legal and policy framework has allowed for youtube users to upload their own videos, amazon and yelp to offer countless user reviews, craigslist to host classified ads, and facebook and twitter to offer social networking to billions of intern
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 size of user generated websites, it would be impossible and unfeasible are intermediaries to prevent this from cropping up on their sites. In short, section 230 is perhaps the most influential law to protect the kind of innovation that is of the internet to thrive since 1996. Yet over the past few years section 230 has faced criticism. Has faced heightened criticism from the left and the right. Many critics on the left argue that social media giants enjoy special protection. They allow speech with
Wouldnt have got off the ground without some help from Goldman Sachs and who ever said a trade war is bad for business well we will meet one garlic farmer in california is laughing all the way to the bank. One forest fire however large might be considered a Natural Disaster something that unfortunately happened but 80000. 00 in a year in the one place Something Else is surely going on of course talking about the amazon rain forest where right now every minute an area the size of a football pitch is being wiped out. The problem it seems stems from the top brazils diable scenario campaigned on a promise to open up the embers and to farming and logging and mining to strip native amazonian tribes of their land and now hes president hes defunding the bodies responsible for environmental and for cement his argument and that of some rather brazilians is that their Economic Growth is being held back because they cant exploit the amazon but how do you put a price and where do you even start whe
This is the clinic in goma where the man sought help before he died he fell sick days after returning home from an infected area where he was working in a mining area the clinic is now closed some clinicians have been vaccinated and Health Workers are trying to trace people the victim made contact with. More than a 1000000 people live in this city on the border with rwanda. And we did not know what was happening we just saw people looking at doctors carrying him away they said they will come back to vaccinate us. She says we have gone my resident because we have seen how people are dying it would temper and benny night and day. The 2nd outbreak in the countrys history was declared a year ago and has since claimed the lives of 1700 people its 2nd only to the outbreak in west africa that killed 11000 people 5 years ago Health Workers trying to combat the outbreak are having to deal with militia groups and communities both hostile to them as well as poor infrastructure in vast regions whe