Panel today. Discussing the topic of social media content moderation. I want to begin by thanking our cosponsors the session on [indiscernible] i will also announce that this is being recorded. Additionally, we welcome our Live Audience on cspan. We will allow for audience questions at the end of our session. 20 minutes of time i will invite you up to the microphone if you have any questions for our panelists. Additionally, a business meeting will follow. If youre interested you can come speak with us at the end of this panel. I would love to introduce to you our distinguished panelists today. Immediately to my left is kate. An assistant professor of law at st. Johns University School of law. She is a fellow at the yale law school. Her research a Network Freedom of expression and private government have appeared in and [indiscernible] in popular press. Then we have an assistant professor of law at drexel university. She is also a fellow at the center for democracy and technology. Her w
Things where its always on the horizon, were about to do it. I think they will do it. That will take a huge uncertainty out of the way, usmca, nafta 2, getting that out of the way. The other thing to avoid is a trade war with europe over auto parts and imports. With all the optimism, bank of america said 68 of managerses think the markets going to be good. Thats usually a bearish sign. Lauren i know. When everyone starts saying things are so good, mitch, you study this, you know the stock market, does that mean you should go in the other direction. Not necessarily. Think about what happened last year. We were worried about the fed raising rates. This year the fed lowered rates three times. The markets are sending them a message, saying we like lower rates. I think fed talk will be the thing to look at. I would look at corporate earnings next year. Baked into the market this year is the fact that next year will be a good year for earnings. Last year was a meh year for earnings. Lauren i
President and not their dictator who offers commentator on how its going, note of optimism, he note that they would retaliate if the United States wants to wage a trade war, i dont know, there was a bloomberg report that lee ho, reformer, trade negotiator expressing optimism, as you said, weve been hearing this a lot for what seems many, many months, years, but maria sure has, take the tariffs off the table or we will not buy the 50 billion in ag products. The warning comes with i want to do a phase 1 deal. I think what james alluded to, this is the longest soap opera now since general hospital. [laughter] thats positive, oh, but we have to do this, i actually see the ball having not moved forward at all. I think this is just more negotiations, i hope this gets resolved in 2020, if not, here is the great thing, the markets have seemed to have been inoculated, the markets are doing great in the absence of anything happening. Dagen in absence of escalation. Yes. Dagen again, President Tr
Exclusive interview with bloomberg news. Cooks in the kitchen. We will look at the now competitive space of rental kitchens. About a startup called virtual kitchen. First, to our top story. So apple is considering bundling its Digital Services including news plus, tv plus, and digital apple music. Gainis seen as a bid to more subscribers. The tech giant is already experimenting with this kind of approach, offering free apple tv plus subscriptions to student users of apple music. Through. K me what are we bundling and why . Mark thank you for having me. Like you said, apple wants to bundle together different paid services. They have had apple music since 2015. They came out with four or five new ones across 2019 this year. Cheaper too make it subscribe to them by lowering the price if you subscribe to multiple. Right now, apple music costs 10. News plus costs 10. If i have storage, i pay 3 a month. There is apple arcade for five dollars. There is apple tv plus for five dollars. Altogeth
Content. Section 230 of the commune cases decency act has enabled that echo system to involve by giving online companys the ability to moderate content without equating them to the publisher or speaker of that content. Weve been able the creation of millions and billions of people to come together and interact. Today, this committee will be examining that world that section 230 has enabled both the good and the bad. Id like to thank the witnesses for appearing before us today. Each of you represents important perspective related to the content and the ecosystem. Ony of you bring up concerns this complex issue. I agree this is a complex issue. Regulate y should disinformation and hate speech. Like too many communities my hometown of pittsburgh has seen what unchecked hate can lead to. Almost a year ago, our community suffered the most deadly attack on Jewish Americans in our nations history. The shooter did so after posting antisemitic comments before finally posting that he was in. A s