This week world leaders are meeting at the u.n. Climate summit in Madrid talking about how to keep global warming in check as part of our series how we survive we've been looking at how technology can help us adapt to a changing climate and one thing that's going to become increasingly valuable in the future is drinking water droughts storms and sea level rise all affect the availability of potable water India is already basically running out one startup is working on the problem with tech that collects water vapor from the air and stores it as clean water the company is called 0 mass water it's based in the Arizona desert and sells what the company calls hydro panels they are solar powered panels that collect water Cody Friesen is the founder and c.e.o. Of 0 mass water and I asked him to describe the tech you think about Ok water from air right anybody who's had a glass of cold ice tea has made water from their right they do on the outside of that glass yet on the other side we don't have experience with when you've left the lid off of the Sugar Bowl and that sugar gets clumpy So the sugar is sort of absorbing that water vapor right the big science the word here is it's the sugars hygroscopic meaning that it likes water vapor right and so you can imagine a nano structured highly hygroscopic material like sugar not sugar is able to do that process really really fast it's imagine like super charge sugar. And the ability to sort of absorb water from the atmosphere concentrated by about $20000.00 x. 5 only and just completely passively who is this for who is it designed for and where did the idea come from yeah I mean really anybody who wants resilience in their drinking water that is independent of the grid and infrastructure for. So far customers are everybody from you know relatively wealthy folks living in say Berkeley or in Dubai all the way to folks of more modest means whose infrastructure is not great or nonexistent Let's talk price because the Right now the panels are pretty expensive $6000.00 or so for each household system so they residential u.s. Residential install the cost of that a lot of that is driven by the need to install just a couple panels on top of somebodies roof and and even that amortized over its lifetime is something like $12.00 to $0.15 a liter is still substantially cheaper then bottled water and how important do you think that this specific technology and technology like this is going to be as we are forced to adapt to climate change I think it's critical given that water and specifically drinking water is such a scarce resource and such a huge challenge you know that's an area that we want to focus to go get that nailed because it's such a huge carbon footprint on the bottled water front it's a huge carbon footprint in terms of how you think about cleaning up water it's also the way that people are going to gain alternate resilience so they're not just reacting we're not reacting to disaster with like flying in creates a bottle water but rather placing solutions that can ride through storms independent infrastructure Cody Friesen is the founder and c.e.o. Of 0 mass water in November the company partnered with 2 nonprofit organizations to install a hydro panel array in a West Virginia county that will provide clean drinking water to the county's food bank a Molly Wood and that's Marketplace. This is a pm. Hello I'm Carol Off Good evening I'm Karen Gordon this is as it happens. Tonight a matter of interpretation the Supreme Court denies the appeal of 95 year old helmet. And now the former interpreter for the Nazis may finally be deported to Germany so there's nothing right about where she was left in Nova Scotia a woman with intellectual disabilities will move to a suitable home after being placed in a hospital by the province and abandon prevention means no cure at all Australia restricts the right a refugees being held off shore to get medical attention I'm sure our guest says that will have devastating health consequences and a bicycle built for 2 dimensional people the stationary bike company peloton won't back pedal on it's been widely criticized commercial and our guest has her own story of an on screen workout that didn't work out as it happened the 1st day edition radio of the takes peloton off its Christmas cardio list. He's been at war with the federal government for nearly 25 years over what he did during the war and today Helmut Overlander lost his last battle the Supreme Court has decided not to hear the appeal of the x. Nazi interpreter and means the Mr Overlander who is 95 years old could have his Canadian citizenship stripped and be deported to his native Germany for it's about time Mr Rudner is the former regional director at the Canadian Jewish Congress he spent years researching Mr Overlanders case we reached Mr Rudner in Thornhill Ontario. Mr Wagner What does it mean to you that Helmut overland him actually be deported to Germany after all these years. Well Carol it is the end of a very long road and it's a tragedy that's been written in many pieces over the last 20 or 25 years but it is a piece of justice and better justice served cold and small portions of them not served at all what was Overlanders rule during World War 2 with the Nazis Mr Oberlander was conscripted into a mobile killing your nets specifically ek 10 a which was part of Einsatzgruppen deep the mobile killing units were purpose we constructed to follow the German army into Russia following the acts of the invasion of the Soviet Union in 141 and their role was very precise to murder civilians to murder commissar as to murder communists but most especially to murder Jews and they murdered one and a half 1000000 Jews before their work was done what did he actually do and that you know Mr Robey wonder was conscripted to act as a translator We can leave it to to its news to figure out what it is that a translator would be doing in a mall in a unit that was devoted to the process of murdering civilians it's unlikely that a translator would have been asking for both directions and the best way to get from one town to the next How has it been describing their people have documented what happened at the sites where people were murdered in and put into mass graves so he would have been attendant to those that wouldn't well missed Mr Oberlander in one of the many cases that went before the courts said that he was unaware that he was a member of a mobile killing unit justice Andrew McKay in 2000. I did not find that to be credible these were small units it would be virtually impossible for anybody not to know what was going on and what was going on these units would arrive in towns the Jews would be gathered some of the men would be taken away to dig or edge paths then they would be marched to the pits they would be made to stand at the end of the grass at the edge of the path and they would be murdered one by one and board by board when this double anger can be counted out what did he tell us already about his time in Germany Well I can tell you what he didn't tell them he did not say that I was a member of the mob while killing in the current the current version is that yes he was a member of this unit but he was coerced he was at the age of 17 so is that known argument that he 17 years old he fears for his life that he would ever he did he was he had to do it he would have faced a similar consequences when the Federal Court of Appeal addressed this matter in 2015 they determined the defense of gear as was not a predictable in this case because Mr Overlander served with the unit for a period of 18 months he had no difficulty with joining his mother's application for German citizenship he received a medal and during all the times when Mr overland there was one solitary guard duty or when he went off on that we always came back to our photographs of some of these mass graves and what happened in these places where he was not identified ever in any of these photographs or knew this evidence that's correct Mr Overlander does not want to citizenship and is not stand ready to be deported because engaged in war crimes because he whines about his wartime activities and that if he would have been truthful he would not have been an admitted to Canada and that is afoot that finding has never been overturned Why has it taken the Canadian government for attempts to strip him of his Canadian citizenship and deport and then I think for the longest time the Canadian government was not interested in pursuing this it was ancient ancient history. Nothing to be gained by by opening old wounds when once a decision had been made to begin to open up file as a gentleman awake all night Oberlander things moved glacial way it was almost as if the government of the time whichever government you might have been was really hoping that the Grim Reaper would collect these people before a decision actually had to be made there were something like 30 cases that containing Jewish Congress was aware of those 30 cases excluding Mr overland or only one of them resulted in a deportation you had family who disappeared during this time in Ukraine is this case in any way personal for you. Well my family was very lucky my grandparents came to this country before the war and yet in the south Ukraine which was the hunting grounds of Einsatzgruppen de There is a town called which Hutch which depending on the time of day was either in Poland or was in the Ukraine or is Russia and that was one of the towns that my family came from it is always been a question to me as to whether there were any members of my family in the church when the mob of killing units came you know did history cause the paths of any of my relatives because with that of Mr Oglander there's no way of knowing but the tragedy of the Holocaust is greater in a sense than what any one family experienced we all in one way or another stood on the edge of the edge of that path and we're still looking into it to finally he is Mr Oglander is 95 years old he has poor vision poor hearing and he hasn't held German citizenship since 1960 let's say value at the end of his life to return to Germany is a question of justice I think yes Mr Oglander is not is 95 years old when all this started he was 75 years old when he was acting as a translator for them all the. Killing units he was 17 and when the killing units came to came to town as white but Church of the Jews who they marched to the edge of the grave and dispatched into oblivion where men and women they were very young and they were very old we cannot and should not judge Mr Overlander because of his current frailties or because of his age rather I think it is important to remember that way to me that when he was a cog in the machinery of mass murder he was young and the justice it is we now we see being given to him is mild compared to the injustice that was meted out to the victims of the model going in with Mr Wagner thank you thank you Carol Lin Rudner is a former agree General Director at the Canadian Jewish Congress and he research Talmud Overlanders case today Canada's top court said it would not be hearing the appeal of 95 year old Mr Overlander who was an interpreter for the Nazis. There are nearly 500 asylum seekers still being held in Papua New Guinea and now room often in dire conditions but for the past 10 months there seemed to be some hope for those in Australia's offshore detention centers if doctors determined that a person needed urgent medical treatment they couldn't access on the islands they were sent to the mainland yesterday that changed a strain lawmakers voted to revoke that law known as medivac doctors who witnessed how living in the detention centers can impact people's health are devastated including Nick Martin who says that with this move Australia has become a little cooler Dr Martin was the Senior medical officer on our roof from November 2016 until August 2017 we reached him in Perth Australia Dr Martin now that this medivac has been revoked how Australia decided who these people on these detention islands will get medical attention it looks like I'll go back to the old system and it was a very haphazard way of going about choosing who made it say get medical attention or not in a cost the cultures which I was one of them which recommend refugees get transferred for investigation treatment but then that decision would go to a pretty face this committee it which usually just say no or ignored recommendation and sometimes we don't need to cite move a refugee one stands a threat of legal action. And so the system it didn't exist was very inefficient is unbelievably slow and it meant that there was no real proper Triology or correct trashing of a patient removed so basically doctors will not be deciding who needs medical attention it'll be politicians yes they do have doctors in the process and we give out recommendations but overridden all the decision to submit to refugee is made by of people with severe Kratz and politicians Yes Why did the Australian Government make this change revoke this medivac and revert back to the old system it's about the thing that's been the most difficult thing really that old things over challenges you know facing Australia and the rest of the world right now they decided to focus on repeating medical care for about 500 people but a lot of it is that when they lost the bill when the medivac bill was actually pushed through it and to be getting some so not months ago and as a 1st time the government last of a finite she is and I think a lot of it was annoyance frankly your feelings about that and they said as to what I was saying no we were going to Davis they have managed to conflate deny medical care with Border Protection which is a Folks argument in my mind but there is some of the messaging there saying that the Australians Home Affairs Minister has a subsisted jested that medivac ing people refugees from these detention islands ring in for medical treatment Australia is a back door it's a way to sneak into the country what do you say to that I think you're going to get on a boat leaky boat great expense having fled your home anyway Parry mind but 90 percent of the people who have been assessed as being genuine refugees who go through a fatty hostile offshore very remote island and spend around 6 or 7 years in the Vaiko press or you might just get Ellen asked to get transferred to Australia whilst. In detention it's high time and you can get really back again over time that's that's a pretty long bow to draw the minister done there's also demonized refugees over the years every description would be African gangs or Lebanese community he closed the refugees up short all right this and murderers and terrorists and so I think you'll say anything to try to justify his fairly proved so callous position wedding what kinds of ailments we're talking about here what reasons would they be brought to Australia to get any kind of medical treatment these refugees I think overwhelmingly now it's psychiatric reasons and that's. 6 or 7 years an indefinite detention the burden of mental illness on the audience and is quite unbelievable and so 6 of a depression sometimes other conditions like that would be the biggest thing but also lots of other just general things if you're in a remote town in Canada that you would could get fixed up pretty quickly if you just buy one trip to you know that the big hospital let's say you have a breast lump something like that you know back and be excluded as being nasty you know about one scam but that's not available on our we spoke with that lovely spoke with a number of people who have been on those islands both as doctors and as refugees one of them and you're sort of a guy who's now in Canada through a private sponsorship and he told this is I'm sure you've heard the horror stories of what it was like he spent 6 years on menace island and it seriously damaged his mental health he did get treatment in Australia before he came to Canada he was he was allowed to get that So now what happens to people like Amir and now this is been revoked Well he's lucky to get away and I think it's one for the Canada has accepted him. For another no show. If you about us indecency but the frustrating thing it's so it was so voidable So you know about all. Refugees who try to seek help last Friday in Australia a factory is damaged and a life you lost your job didn't you when you decided you're going to or a doctor and now route is one of these these detention islands and you blew the whistle on what you saw there why was it worth it to you to to feel that you know it was it worth it yeah it's a b. Because yeah I lost my job but saying I thought that came a chipping point where I just could not carry on any longer having seen the things that sing without. Speaking up and saying I was this criminal you wrote in a letter I think yesterday you said that this is to a stale Ians who seem to delight in the ongoing cruelty being inflicted on vulnerable people you said that Australia to speak came a little cooler and a little more sadistic do you think that this is how Australians in general do they do they support what's happening with how that the treatment of these refugees on these islands is trying people that it does not have absolute racist rhetoric you know back to well yeah but just seasoned charge saying just to shoot scratch and 7 yesterday and that was you seem to delight in punching down on refugees now it's just tragic really but I think Australians are fundamentally decent people much like everyone's decent but for some reason a certain government has a being spun about people who arrive by boat which is just a very bizarre thing and it's and yeah but that's what it saw David I think there are votes in it that I'm not an IP should speaking with you thank you thank you very much Nic Martin is the former senior medical officer and now room one of Australia's offshore detention islands we reached him in Perth. Creepy sexist dystopian not the rave reviews you want if you're trying to sell exercise bikes but those are the reviews the company peloton is getting after releasing its newest ad for its Internet connected spin classes the ad shows a montage of selfie filmed clips of a slim young woman talking to her phone document how her partner's gift of a peloton bike has changed her life at the end you see the couple sitting together watching the video here's the at Ok you know. How time. First try their best buy excited that's in 5 days or all the rides. The. Rising Star has totally were. Bought by. The way in which the speech. This holiday gives the guest. Since the peloton ad was released the backlash has been so severe that the company stock has taken a dive Tullio Xandra guy is an actor and t.v. Host who had her own eyebrow raising experience auditioning for a peloton ad we reached her in San Diego California do what did you think when you 1st saw that Paladin ad you know I cringed I thought it was the cringe I It struck me right away that something was just off 1st of all the emotions of having fears in your eyes about a 1st ride on a stationary bike that in your home is just a little too I just thought it was a little bit much the whole thing and the relationship between this woman who's who's who grateful to her she's very fit and that which is very grateful to this husband who would give her this gift what do you make of that I mean well I think there's sort of preys upon a lot of women's insecurity when it comes to physical appearance and someone gives you a gift that sort of implies. Productive weight loss I think is a little bit strange but who knows maybe the backstory is that she really wanted to get in shape but wait she's already in shape so that part was a little bit strange but then would have been worse that she wasn't in shape I don't know but yeah if it was a little bit weird I think the strangest part of it was it all ended with they're both sitting on the couch watching her journey and she's looking at him for just desperate approval in her eyes like Fifi what I did that's what struck me as so awkward like why they see her husband's validation to say that she's done a good job I don't know it just seems all the whole thing Ok mention her eyes stick his head some of the Vick discussion she does look desperate doesn't she and she has what one person tweeted the lady in the peloton. It has a perpetually sad eyebrow. Did you notice. I did you know I would say that this is probably this actress is a victim of bad direction I think it's just a terrible direction that the ad went in and it's unfortunate Ok so you've had your own awkward experience with Politan as you dish and for a different one can you tell us about that. When I was an actor and your ex City this is just a few years ago it was actually the 1st peloton that well I got down to the very last producer callbacks which is like they have all the big wigs in the room and came down to myself and 2 other women and the one thing that we noticed was that we the women the females in the room were all very young and in our sort of early to mid twenty's and the band that they had chosen to Paris up with because it was a husband and wife commercial This is a husband wife team basically the band were all old really not attractive so we were just kind of like Ok it was a little awkward and I thought to myself there's no way of getting this role because this guy could be my dad and that's what they do in commercial This is as if they had to do a round robin of a pair you up with different people to see who looks best together on camera as they're trying to create a couple or a family and I thought there's no way that this is happening because this is the plate Leon the Asli awkward so you didn't get the role and you didn't get Edition for this latest one to have professionally said eyebrows in the commercial No no no i my commercial t.v. Career is no longer but you know commercial acting is the toughest acting that there is out there because you have to convey what it takes actors in movies over the course of 2 hours you have to convey that in 60 sometimes 30 seconds and so it's it's really tough and I feel for these after I think. Well for the actress so much in particular because this ad if peloton doesn't pull it you know which could have a financial impact on her personally you know she's always going to be known as the peloton girl you think is already too late for her Oh gosh no I don't want to say that I mean I'm sure she has a wonderful career I hope that she has a wonderful career ahead of her but I do think that going into the room or as they call it you know going into the casting room they will recognize her from this that because it I mean it essentially went viral so peloton is defending their ad and says that people are misrepresenting the commercial that is does meant to show how users lives have been positively impacted by their bikes so what do you make of that good for peloton I guess for defending themselves and I guess I take that to mean good for her the actress because she'll still get her residual checks because the end of the day that would be the worst thing if if they pulled the ad and then admitted defeat then she wouldn't get paid and the rest of the actors wouldn't get paid so for that I'm happy that they're defending it but at the same time a guarantee you they will be branded it and come January they'll come out with another ad that will be all about you know people who are having weight struggles and who are actually having real journeys and I think that the biggest issue that I take with the ad is that it didn't feel real there are a number of parodies of this line with the joke it's been talked about in so many articles do you think that is unlikely. How do you think women would react if there's actually a peloton bike under the Christmas tree for them this year. I hope that if there is one that they do their own reenactment of the commercial. And then post it online that it goes viral you know you know like I hope that whoever gets that gift it's a lovely gift and I hope that they like it and don't take offense to it and how. Well you don't think that they weren't but at the end of the day that it had all probably become a quote anger. Julie thanks so much thank you Vice about Julie Alexandria is an actor and t.v. Host We reached her in San Diego California and we have more on that story on our website c.b.c. Dot ca slash a i h. 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Meena cation unquote Well look it's a nice blue but somebody must have spilled red in it because that is some purple prose Here's a song about everybody that isn't Panton classic blue this is the dead south with From the album sugar enjoy the dead self with blue. Going to take a short break now but don't be. Resigned to come back and it was that look beyond the obvious the obvious Cara look feeling Ok We're going to try and do that when we come back with more of the Thursday edition and coming up we even have a story about satire which is low hanging fruit unless he stands on his tiptoes and Italian artist known as the juster of the art world is sticking it to the establishment once again this time by sticking bananas to. Wall of an art gallery with duct tape and when you hear what he's charging for a record stay tuned I'm Carol and I'm Karen Gordon. 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After years of living in a hospital psychiatric ward Beth McLean is finally moving to a home as McLean has intellectual and physical disability but no psychiatric illness her hospital stay was supposed to be temporary instead the province left her there she might still be there today if it weren't for a human rights complaint she filed along with 2 other people with disabilities yesterday Nova Scotia's Human Rights Commission ruled the province had discriminated against them it ordered it to move them to suitable community housing and pay them up to $140000.00 each Joanne pushy is an advocate for Ms McLean and is a former social worker at the hospital we reached her in Dartmouth this pushy can you tell me 1st of all what was life like for Beth McLean the psychiatric ward at the hospital. Yes bath and initially went to the Nova Scotia hospital at around about age oh $19.00 or 20 and she didn't go to Emerald hall to begin and she went to another unit where she essentially stayed for about 7 years when she was transferred to the Nova Scotia hospital it was on a promise that she would be there for one year and one year turned into many years in 2007 she was transferred to and. So at that point she was given a little more freedom in that she could walk a boat unit however Emerald Hall is a locked unit So her ability to move above was very restricted she could not leave the unit without a staff member Everything is scheduled your meals your bag it's a very controlled institutional environment and roll call should have been functioning as an acute psychiatric unit however because of the people that were waiting placement it essentially became a custodial care facility and so what why was she put there what was her condition that they thought this would be appropriate Yeah so as a child a 14 year old she was transferred into an adult facility which you know should never have happened she remained there until. I think around 2001 but there was an incident in October 2000 that precipitated this what was that. I believe borne out of frustration that struck at a staff member at King's rehabilitation center and was transferred to the Nova Scotia hospital now Beth didn't have a psychiatric illness she has in this election disability and that was after she had been king since 1906 that's right she went into Kings as a child at at the age of 14. And she would have been placed in a dormitory style the silicate probably 6 or 8 people which would be harsh for any 14 year old Beth McLean had an opportunity to tell her story before this inquiry how did she describe in her own words what living was like for her. Bess is very clear about what has happened you know she's indicated that she never wanted to be in institutions she always asked to be in the community. You would have to know Beth she's she's curious She's lovely she's genuine she's friendly she loves to engage in conversation with people and to place her in a controlling environment and to labor there to languish it was very difficult for her and she came to really speak about how she hate it being in these places and and she had some terminology that I won't use you know descriptors that really expressed how defeated she felt and she had no advocate I mean if you don't have a voice and when speaking for her within the government within the family or anywhere well she would have had an assigned care coordinator through the Department of Community Services However they Department of Community Services placed a moratorium on the development of small options at around 1998 so essentially there was no development so Beth this one person there was many more individuals who were stuck in Emerald hall and in other places so the department and the Minister of Community Services who had the responsibility to develop services supports placements essentially there was nothing happening Well now to change for Beth McLean. Well bath right now is transitioning into a home in the community with the appropriate supports having lived a vast majority of her life in institutions she has lost the ability you know to do many of the tasks that we do however at this cheeriest and she is smart you know she's warm and and engaging so I am confident that she will do well you know death is 49 and she went into the 1st institutional placement at around 10 you know she's lived 39 years of her life in institutions the province has been ordered to put money and trust for her and for another complainant with similar conditions a 3rd complainant has since died and so is it enough. People look at the amount that she was aboard it and say Oh well $100000.00 you know that's a big amount however when you look at that and you do the math. $100000.00 is a very small amount when you're talking about $39.00 you yourself your life and there's another $40000.00 for legal fees those that doesn't have to come out of this 100000 dollars Is that right that's correct. Walter Thompson who led this inquiry he said The case was not comparable to that of a person who was wrongfully imprisoned that was something that was suggested what do you make of that. I find that concerning because essentially Beth has been locked up and for about 7 years when she 1st went to the Nova Scotia hospital she spent the vast majority of every day in a locked room so in my mind knowing what Beth has gone through it is very comparable. How is Beth feeling about her future. I spoke with Beth on Sunday she's so looking forward to you know moving full time into her home and she's looking forward to a bright future Well it's a long time coming so it's good to hear this push I appreciate speaking with you thank you thank you so much for your interest. The u.s. President's actions have left Democrats with no choice but to act that's what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said this morning as she announced that she was asking her colleagues to proceed with articles of impeachment against Donald Trump It was expected and it means there will almost certainly be an impeachment trial in the Republican held Senate for months lawmakers in Washington have been investigating whether Mr Trump abused his power when it came to his dealings with Ukraine after her announcement this morning Speaker Pelosi held another press conference later in the day as she was leaving the room where that was held she was asked this by a reporter. To going to keep going because I don't think and look you can use my show and. I. Don't. Deny she was to help you. And yet you just keep going to grab the signal like you're going to do it let me just say that I think if you can I think the president is a coward when it comes to helping our kids who are afraid of gun violence I think he is cool when he doesn't deal with that and helping our dreamers of which we're very proud I think he's in denial about the Constitution about the climate crisis however that's about the election this is about the elect a kid up in the election this is about the Constitution of the United States and the facts that lead to the president's violation of his oath of office and as a Catholic I resent your using the word hate in a sentence that addresses me I don't hate anyone I was raised in a way that is full of heart full of love and always prayed for the president and I still pray for the President I pray for the president all the time so don't mess with me when it comes to words like that I was Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaking at a press conference after announcing she would ask House Democrats to proceed with articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump the White House's press secretary said today that the Democrats should be ashamed and that we look forward to a fair trial in the Senate. Facebook is all about keeping in touch with friends but the tech company might not be feeling too chummy towards Annie McAdams right now for years McAdams has made her name is one of Houston's best personal. Restaurants real estate developers and drunk drivers now she's using her background and product liability to tackle. Social media sites like Facebook and Instagram. And while the courts have stymied efforts. Making headway with 3 suits against Facebook in Texas we reached the McAdams in Houston. First of all how are Facebook. Predators who traffic. Facebook and Instagram continue to facilitate a known threat on their platform by connecting predators with children on their platform with no limitation or density verification is Facebook aware of this Facebook and mix it's a problem on their site but yet fails to warn the users of the known risk about Facebook says this is a quote they have 0 tolerance for any behavior or content that exploits children on our platform and they say they used to be catered technology to aggressively combat this behavior and to protect children so what evidence do you have that that's not the case sure of all tell you Facebook tends to say quite a bit that our investigation and evidence says otherwise one of the 1st things that we want to look at was what are the reporting histories of sex trafficking to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and over there in response to our subpoena there was actually only just about 60 reports of human trafficking of those it was actually 3 reports from Facebook about sex trafficking. So actually the numbers and the evidence just don't support the contention of what Facebook is saying to the public can you just give an example of how they're able to use they spoke or Instagram to get access to young people yes I'll give you a perfect example from one of our cases that's on file 12 year old was contacted by a 40 year old man who was registered as a Facebook user as a 14 year old classmate of Jane Doe He reached out to Jane Doe started a grooming process he then more aggressively started to make moves to meet her in person and then eventually kidnapped her from her home and this is one of your cases this is Jane Doe Number 3 is that right yes that's correct so this is a case that Facebook should know that would know that does know that was just start with the basic premise you have to know your customer Facebook understands that it's a community that children interact on so let's start with Step one Identify and verify who's using your platform that way if you know that there's a 40 year old man in a different state attempting to contact a 12 year old female that maybe that that should send off some alert to Facebook. As you know there is in the United States something called Section $230.00 of the Communications Decency Act and this is something that Internet companies rely on and say that they can't be held liable for what users post or how people use their services so you have found a way to challenge them that hasn't really been that this has been successfully tellings before what are you doing in order to tell and them correct well so we have filed in state court against Facebook for violations of state law for facilitating sex trafficking the Communications Decency Act has basically afforded the tech industry a level of immunity that no other industry has ever really had protection of it it has basically allowed sex trafficking to explode internationally because there was no check and balance on the way that the tech companies were exposing our children to harm and our hope is that by filing these cases and using the recent amendment to the Communications Decency Act fast and festa that was passed in April of 2018 that we will find an exception to that immunity and you're using something called the product liability laws is that right that is correct so product liability we think of that in terms of people suing because they got hurt using somebodies exercise equipment in the company should have known that that was faulty so how do you apply that to sex trafficking Facebook admits that they are a product of Facebook the parent company says that the Facebook application is their product in fact they claim to be a product and $74.00 filings with the Securities and Exchange Committee they have filed lawsuits to protect their product and by that declaration I have to take them at their word and say well let's apply product law to the product and if we do so we know that companies such as Facebook have a responsibility to warn the public of the inherent danger that they know exist and to ensure that their product is being made in a safe manner and being used in a safe manner the Facebook again they do not dispute that sex trafficking is not a problem on their side but what they're doing in response to that knowledge is really what our cases are all about. We know that Mark Zuckerberg the Keith executive of Facebook has made a number of statements before Congress and elsewhere has anything any of his declarations affected your ability to fight this case I not not necessarily I'm fact I think Mark Zuckerberg helps our case quite a bit and I am very sympathetic to the lawyers that have to represent Mark Zuckerberg and what really determined to make the final move in the filing was watching his testimony to Congress in March of $21817.00 different independent times circa Berg went under oath and said we're responsible for the content that in and of itself I believe is enough to get us around the Communications Decency Act Even without the foster system and minutes you know I agree with Secretary you are responsible for the content that exists the problem has been you've just not been held accountable for the content how it's harmed individuals in our community you know it's been very difficult in the United States to tell and this section 230 so what are you hoping to happen now word where do your cases stand we knew that this is going to be a tough fight and we're lucky to represent the kind of clients that are brave enough to stand up to these types of companies we want to see a significant disruption in the status quo in the way that big tech is held accountable for the losses that they create in our community we know that sex trafficking has reached epidemic proportions and it's causing significant harm and quite honestly the communities don't have enough money to fund the treatment that's required to fix the families and fix the victims and so now we're going to look to the tech companies that created this problem for sharing in the responsibility to make these people whole we will be watching your cases Misner Gavin thank you thank you an economist is a personal injury lawyer lawyer who's launched several lawsuits against Facebook we reached her in Houston. 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