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Good morning. I want to thank everyone for being here to examine what social Media Companies are doing to combat terrorism, including terrorist propaganda and terrorist recruitment efforts online. The positive contributions of social media platforms are well documented. Youtube, facebook, and twitter, among others, help to connect people around the world, give voice to those oppressed by totalitarian regimes and provide a forum for discussions of every political, social, scientific, and cultural stripe. These services have thrived online because of the freedom made possible by the uniquely ame...

If i can ask everyone to please put their phones on silent mode and let me also welcome you to the campus of George Washington university. Its a real treat, a real pleasure and a privilege to once again host chairman mccall on campus. Hes been chairman of the House Homeland Committee since 2013. At a time where there seems to be quite a bit of gridlock in washington, d. C. , i can say without any exaggeration, he is arguably one of the most prolific and more importantly, effective legislators in d. C. Right now. Focused on a whole host of National Security issues, and also chairs his committee...

Well, good morning. I want to thank everyone for being here to examine what social Media Companies are doing to combat terrorism including terrorist propaganda and recruitment efforts on online. The social media are well documented. Youtube, twitter and facebook among others give voice around the world and provide a forum of discussion of outlets. They have thrived online. But as is so often the kascase, enemies have sought to take over this. Isis has been particularly aggressive in seeking to radicalize to go over the internet. Our companies have a very difficult task, preserving the openness...

Changes that have happened to us and our policy the last year and also kind of scope out what we think this year is going to look like and thats kind of the point. State of the net in january. My name is tim lorden and im part of organization sponsored by jerry who founded this organization, youll hear from at lunch and founded the concept much the state of the net and i want to thank jerry. [applause] jerry is a giant in the space and were happy to have him back. Hell be introducing the congressman later in the program and youll hear from him. Normally it snows before state of the net and wer...

It is my pleasure and privilege to be up here at the foundations 14th annual state of the net conference. I am a fellow at the framework for the early career professionals that was started as the Parent Organization and i am here to ask to cspan where we will be pulling down the panelists through the day talking about the most important issues. I hope to speak with as many of you as possible. As you know we have some fascinating topics and incredible speakers and its never been more important than it is right now. With that in mind i would like to welcome to the stage the assistant secretary o...