We can get going. We have been looking forward to this and those on twitter, we have had a lively sort of prepublickity. So im ann marie slogger, the ceo of new america and i get to moderate this fabulous discussion today and we are here to launch david kayes book, Speech Police, the global struggle to govern the internet and to celebrate consent of the enemyworks which is 201 which was rebecca mckinnons book and a new america book and i was very struck. Ill start with this. When i was reading through the acknowledgments in Speech Police say david you actually say that rebecca and consent of the network, you say few people have had as much influence on my thinking as that book of thought thats wonderful and you have to have written that before you knew we were doing this event, so were going to have a discussion and then well turn it over to you, but i wanted to begin by framing the debate in terms of these two books because i think it says a lot about how the internet has evolved. And
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