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Were honored to have them here today. A special welcome to our commissioners of the Advisory Commission for Public Diplomacy, chairman farar, vice chairman bill hible and commissioner ann weidner. Today, as you know, under the auspices of the Advisory Commission weve called a Public Meeting to look at the question of the gpa, the newly formed gpa. And where it fits into state departments vision for Public DiplomacyGoing Forward in the 21st century. And as vivian walker, executive director, it is my honor to open this event. Before i turn the mic over to my colleague for opening comments, i just want to tell you a little bit about how things a ....
That is true. A lot of the search costs for finding things have been obliterated. It used to be you could find a criminal record in the basement of city hall. The internet has obliterated that. People are concerned about the impact. What concerns me about the right to be forgotten is it has not been balanced with some of the other competing values such as the values of Free Expression and the benefit of the consumers right to know about things like whether a vendor has had bad reviews against them or a babysitter has had criminal offenses. These are things that people could request to be removed from search results and i think thats very anticonsumerist. Is this a shift in thinking with google from a stance that used to say we index the internet. If you have a problem with that, please consult the internet. To a stance that says, there are a lot of tricky things that need to be balanced and may have quibbles with a privately acti ....
Revenue from individual income taxes are expected to rise relative to gdp, because incomes will move into higher tax bracket as income gains outpace inflation to which the brackets are indexed. But those increases are expected to be offset by reduction in the Corporate Income tax and other sources. Turning from the budget of the economy, we anticipate that Economic Activity will expand at a solid pace in 2015 and the next few years, reducing the amount of underused resources or slack in the economy. In our estimation, increases in consumer spending, business investment, and residential investment will drive the next few years. The growth in those categories of spending will be run mainly from increases in hourly compensation, from rising wealth , from the decline in crude oil prices, and from a step up in the rate of household formation. As measured in the change from th ....
This is 90 minutes. Good morning. I feel like we should vote on something, but were not going to do that. My name is jonathan and on behalf of the Robert Kennedys school of politics and the internet association, im delighted to welcome everybody here and in the virtual world. We are live streaming. At least as far as i know. I would give you the url, but if youre on the lifestream, you party know it. If youre here, you dont need it. We are also being recorded for posterity. Our good friends and neighbors at cspan will be putting this up against the friday night battle between the house of representatives subcommittee on Veterans Affairs and a briefing at the treasury department. I think we are looking pretty good. Be aware. We are broadcasting. We are in the penthouse on the fifth floor of the kennedy school. The school is named after john f. Kennedy. The institute of poli ....
As the far end of the pendulum it allows everybody to start from a position of we are going to work to keep openness as the basic principle and work act back from there with the exceptions. It sounds like you are saying, congress, keep up the good work. Just to put you on the record. Thanks so much for your enlightened legislation in the internet area. A senator from nebraska ended up being a visionary that he never expected to be. [laughter] you can layer on acceptable use policies, things that in the companys judgment like auctions that are prohibited. Sure. That has been from day one also. That was part of the protection of section 230 and 512 that provided for the ability for companies to exercise judgment and to get rid of things they believe are in the consumers interest. When theres been a conflict and commerce. Fake rolex watches, fake wetsuits watches being sold on ebay, is that settled now . I would say that the great copyright and trademark wars over the internet are not set ....