The committee will now come to order. The chair now recognizes himself for five minutes for an opening statement. Online content moderation has largely enabled the internet experience that we know today, whether its looking up restaurant reviews on yelp, catching up on snl on youtube, or checking in on a friend or a loved one on social media. These are all experiences that weve come to know and rely on. And the platforms we go to to do these things have been enabled by User Generated Content as well as the ability of these companies to moderate that content and create communities. Section 230 of the Communications Decency act has enabled that ecosystem to evolve. By giving Online Companies the ability to moderate content without equating them to the publisher or speaker of that content, weve enabled the creation of massive online communities of millions and billions of people to come together and interact. Today this committee will be examining that world that section 230 has enabled,
For everything airing over the next 48 hours. Check the program guide. We kick off the weekend with a look at Quantum Mechanics. Good evening everyone. Welcome. Thank you for coming out to the secret Science Source north. We are a series that brings science test of all the disciplines out to public sages where they can be part of the cultural life of the city where people like you can come in and interact directly with them. And be informed at the same time. Our regular hangout is at the bell house in brooklyn. The secret science club north we are were back here tonight it is our kick off of our many season here are fit many season of secret science club north. Were also happy to be helping to kick off the new season i think we are just right behind the new republic as always. We want to thank all of the staff of the symphony space. They are the best. A very special thanks they have created our fabulous libation of the night. It has in it bourbon, maple syrup in a smoky ginger ale topp
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Hello. Thank you for coming out to bring scientist of all disciplines and then to interact directly with them and with those discoveries and here in brooklyn but speaker from new york science secret club north and and then right behind the new republic as always. And with rebecca and mary for helping us and also zach. And then fabulous libation of money and exhibit a. And you could get it at the bar to the left now is a good time to do it. And then to be back on decemberd with astronaut Catherine Sullivan a former nasa astronaut the first woman to walk in space but also because of an oaa very timely. So if you would like to find out in our Upcoming Events check out our website we have blogspot website and you can sign up for the mailing list they are. So tonight theoretical physicist has a new book out and in fact it came out today. It came out today. Physicist, mathematician, professor at Columbia University and director of the center for theoretical physics is also a playwright and s
Interact directly with them and be informed at the same time, energized by scientific ideas and at bell house in brooklyn. Back here tonight, the kickoff of the fifth many season of secret science club north and we are happy to kick off symphony spaces this season behind the new republic. And joanna thompson, rebecca wise and mary mead, the most helpful. A very special thanks, they created the libation of the night. The quantum cocktail, exhibit a. And a smoky ginger ale topped with lemon. We get it at the bar. If you are bored by me. A heads up part of the many season, by december 3rd with astronaut kathy sullivan, former nasa astronaut, the First American woman to walk in space and a former director of noaa. You might have read some of her thoughts yesterday in the paper. You can visit our website at we are so high tech we have a blog spot. You can sign up for our mailing list. Our wonderful secret tonight, sean carroll has a new book out. It came out today. And it is a book party. T