This week on the communicators we want to introduce you to the Senior Vice President for Public Policy for a site called yelp. What exactly is yelp and what you do . Thank you for having me on today, peter. Populara website and consumer application that allows people to connect with rate local businesses. It is a service that empowers and protects consumers, allows people to discover rate local tos, at a way for consumers warn fellow consumers about not so great businesses. Host how many visitors a month to have . Guest depending on how you break it out, there are folks who access it via mobile web, the website, the app, it is north of 100 Million People then we have 200 million reviews that have been submitted. Host how to make money . Guest yelp is a vertical search engine, not unlike google if i do a search for a dentist in san diego, there are handful of totists who are paying basically have a sponsored, clearly labeled as such, link, that lives above your organic search results. T
Government is contemplating isnt going to just let facebook off the hook for policing free free speech its its going to possibly wipe out free on line speech entirely you see on wednesday this week u. S. Attorney william barr convened a workshop featuring many of the Tech Companies critics to explore potential changes to section 230 of the Communications Decency act which was passed back in 1996 and that is a long time critic of section 230. 00 attorney general barsa could instruct his Justice Department to explore ways to limit the provision which per tax on Line Companies from liability for User Generated Content meanwhile the kings of Silicon Valley are quickly realizing that all is now well with their worker bees as this week we also saw these circus storm the ramparts one that workers at the crowdfunding platform kickstarter made history on tuesday when they voted to unionize making them the 1st in the industry to do so. What a day what a week in Silicon Valley online free speech
H q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour russia and the u. S. Have traded violent accusations at the u. N. Security council as turkey with western backing warns its a matter of time before it intervenes militarily in syrias. Its like the end of the world breaking point babies freezing to death amid it live push these people are begging the world to listen to their plight and so i ask how much longer will we tolerate these headlines that will live there that were called the United Nations Security Council meetings cold that often when militants were marching towards damascus with the full backing of some western states playing the card of suffering civilians and a longstanding truce every time your cherished terrorists come under threat candidly it is a marvel to me that our russian colleagues can speak of ceasefires and Political Solutions in this chamber with a straight face when their own 4 planes have struck hospitals and the homes of children how can i respond to your accusati
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