Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome provost strom. [applause] good evening. It is my very great pleasure to welcome you to Memorial Church for this years lecture on a Meaningful Life. Honored we are deeply to have as our speaker associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Ruth Bader Ginsburg. [cheers and applause] this event, as you may know, has a rich history at stanford. Lecture that in a inry rathbun, a professor the 1930s through the 1950s, decided to give on the last day of his class one spring. The lecture was such a success that it turned into an annual tradition at stanford for many years until professor rathbun retired. It was revised in 2008, supported by a generous gift to the office of religious life by the foundation for Global Community which established the henry and Amelia Rathbun fund for exploring what leads to a Meaningful Life. Each year, a rathbun visiting fellow selected to come to stanford to deliver the lecture and spend time with our faculty,
Hosted a Virtual Meeting on Climate Change with her counterparts from the g7 nations. We will also hear from the dalai dall. Jane goo rep. Pelosi it is my honor to welcome this distinguished group of leaders to the 19th annual g7 speakers meeting on addressing the Climate Crisis with Environmental Justice for all. We are pleased to be joined by the ambassadors of the g7 nation. It is a privilege to be here once again to confront the existential threat of our time, the Climate Crisis. As we have over the years. On parliaments committed for the ocean. Wenk you to the president , send our regards to you. Your participation in todays meeting with leaders from diverse communities, including from both the state and scientific communities. We are pleased to be joined by the dalai lama. His holiness became the first Nobel Laureate on the basis of his environmental advocacy. In his acceptance speech, he said, with the evergrowing impact of science on our lives, religion and spirituality have a
Companies and Internet Users reposting Third Party Material as liability. Recorded earlier this week this is just over three hours reposting Third Party Material as liability. Recorded earlier this week this is just over three hours. The committee will now come to order the chair recognizes himself or five minutes for Opening Statement. On my content on online content moderation is the negine experience we know today whether looking up restaurant reviews or catching up on snl on youtube are checking in on a friend or a loved one on social media these are all experiences we have 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 Communications Decency actit has enabled that ecosystem to evolve by giving only companies the ability to moderatec content without equating them to the publisher or speaker of the content, we
Voter discrimination. Todays hearing on evidence of current and ongoing voting discrimination is part of the series of hearings of the house judiciary subcommittee on constitution several rights and liberties, for this year. The current need for reinvigoration of the preclearance requirement of the section five of the Voting Rights act. To consider other ways to strengthen the civil rights. Im not sure why we say reinvigoration. That seems to be one of the words we toss around. Its not really reinvigoration. Its degradation. Section four was cut out so we need to have a section for to activate section five. Section five is made dormant because of the Supreme Court staying section four wasnt adequate. So we need to find a new section. Awaken the dormant power of section five. Its widely considered the effective civil rights statute ever enacted on congress. Enormously successful and expanding federal authority to present protect the fundamental right to vote. When the central enforcemen