Good morning. I want to thank everyone for being here to examine what social Media Companies are doing to combat terrorism, including terrorist propaganda and terrorist recruitment efforts online. The positive contributions of social media platforms are well documented. Youtube, facebook, and twitter, among others, help to connect people around the world, give voice to those oppressed by totalitarian regimes and provide a forum for discussions of every political, social, scientific, and cultural stripe. These services have thrived online because of the freedom made possible by the uniquely american guarantee of free speech and by a light touch regulatory policy. But as is so often the case, enemies of our way of life have sought to take advantage of our freedoms to advance hateful causes. Violent Islamic Terrorist Groups like isis have been particularly aggressive in seeking to radicalize and recruit over the internet and various social media platforms. The companies that our witnesses
If i can ask everyone to please put their phones on silent mode and let me also welcome you to the campus of George Washington university. Its a real treat, a real pleasure and a privilege to once again host chairman mccall on campus. Hes been chairman of the House Homeland Committee since 2013. At a time where there seems to be quite a bit of gridlock in washington, d. C. , i can say without any exaggeration, he is arguably one of the most prolific and more importantly, effective legislators in d. C. Right now. Focused on a whole host of National Security issues, and also chairs his committee in a genuinely bipartisan kind of way, which is very true to the issues our country faces on national and Homeland Security. Im going to be very brief, which is very rare for me, since ive never had an unspoken thought. But im going to turn it over to the chairman now, and afterwards, we have an amazing panel. When you think about members of congress, you dont immediately think cia, you dont imme
Well, good morning. I want to thank everyone for being here to examine what social Media Companies are doing to combat terrorism including terrorist propaganda and recruitment efforts on online. The social media are well documented. Youtube, twitter and facebook among others give voice around the world and provide a forum of discussion of outlets. They have thrived online. But as is so often the kascase, enemies have sought to take over this. Isis has been particularly aggressive in seeking to radicalize to go over the internet. Our companies have a very difficult task, preserving the openness upon which their platforms are thrived and swart the actions that have used it for other purposes. Islamic terrorists using social media platforms to inspire well documented. For example, the killer responsible for the orlando nightclub shooting in which 49 people were murdered reportedly digital material readily available on social media. And this itch sue not new. Over the course of several yea
Changes that have happened to us and our policy the last year and also kind of scope out what we think this year is going to look like and thats kind of the point. State of the net in january. My name is tim lorden and im part of organization sponsored by jerry who founded this organization, youll hear from at lunch and founded the concept much the state of the net and i want to thank jerry. [applause] jerry is a giant in the space and were happy to have him back. Hell be introducing the congressman later in the program and youll hear from him. Normally it snows before state of the net and were expecting snow tomorrow and ill thrilled about that and the people that can organize the state of the union can deal with that, but today, we have good weather and were thrilled to have a great lineup of speakers. Just really quickly, i want to thank our sponsors. You can see some of them on the screens around you. They include comcast nbc universal, we also have facebook, we have verizon and th
It is my pleasure and privilege to be up here at the foundations 14th annual state of the net conference. I am a fellow at the framework for the early career professionals that was started as the Parent Organization and i am here to ask to cspan where we will be pulling down the panelists through the day talking about the most important issues. I hope to speak with as many of you as possible. As you know we have some fascinating topics and incredible speakers and its never been more important than it is right now. With that in mind i would like to welcome to the stage the assistant secretary of Communications Information for the department of commerce and administrator. Thank you. [applause] thanks for the introduction and its great to be here again. Thanks for inviting me and congratulations on the program you put together this year. Id like to take the opportunity to talk about items on the agenda but speak out to me personally as well as a discussion between Bobby Mcdowell and my fo