Most urgent issue we face and theres a lot of competition. Weve been witnessing a relentless and unprecedented seriesta of attacks on the twin foundations of our democratic system, free and Fair Elections and the rule of law. They are not unrelated to the president has made repeated threat to separate the election, some with support from the attorney general, suggesting he will military to the polls which is illegal, Voter Suppression of perhaps most chillingly refusing to commit to abide by theab election results. Some are worried that the rule of law has been so eroded in this country that it may be possible to literally steal the election, and we think there are strong legal and institutional safeguards against that, but the dramatic erosion of the rule of law in recent years is unmistakable. We you see Law Enforcement weaponized arew partisan and political gain come from threats of politically motivated prosecutions against political adversaries to the actual interference in prosec
Amendment rights until there is no freedom at all. They will put the Great Republic on the trashy but history if they have their way if our government does not act and act immediately. Facebook and twitter this week censoring the New York Post bombshell reports linking joe biden to his son Hunter Bidens corrupt business dealings in ukraine and china. Facebook censored the stories, twitter censored the stories, facebook saying they needed to be fact checked and twitter called the stories potentially harmful. Whatever in the world that means. Within minutes, both social media platforms had put in and to the free flow of information in this country, the free flow of information that underpins our very democracy, they blocked millions of their users including myself to simply slow down the distribution of the New York Post exposes of the bidens. Twitter said their decision to censor the New York Post links fell under what they call the hack material policy, it is a policy to twitter ceo ja
So speaking of funding gaps. The Brennan Center for justice hosting a discussion on how the government should respond to protests. Whetherthe response should be different for Peaceful Protesters and anarchists and what the response could be. Democracy and equal protection under the law. We are a nonpartisan 501 c 3 . We do not participate in elections or endorse or oppose candidates in any way and we are very grateful to be producing todays event with the nyu John Brenneman center which advocates for civil debate on politics and Public Policy and nyu votes which works to give every nyu student the information they need to vote. I am especially grateful to be introducing an event with some of the countries most important thinkers on what i think is one of themost urgent issues we face and theres a lot of competition. Weve been witnessing a relentless andunprecedented series of attacks on the twin foundations of our democratic system. Elections and the rule of law. They are not unrelated
And they will trample our First Amendment rights until there is no freedom at all. They will put the Great Republic on the trashy but history if they have their way if our government does not act and act immediately. Facebook and twitter this week censoring the New York Post bombshell reports linking joe biden to his son Hunter Bidens corrupt business dealings in ukraine and china. Facebook censored the stories, twitter censored the stories, facebook saying they needed to be fact checked and twitter called the stories potentially harmful. Whatever in the world that means. Within minutes, both social media platforms had put in and to the free flow of information in this country, the free flow of information that underpins our very democracy, they blocked millions of their users including myself to simply slow down the distribution of the New York Post exposes of the bidens. Twitter said their decision to censor the New York Post links fell under what they call the hack material policy,
Across europe growing infection rates fresh lockdown measures and the inevitable health and Economic Hardship to follow is the headache for which there are no easy fixes. Well germany is also considering additional measures to rein in rising infection rates or storage is reported more than 5000. 00 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours the highest one day total since been able to answer im going to the heads of the countries federal states are meeting in berlin as we speak with announcement expected this evening new cases have been rising steadily since the end of summer some regions already imposed new restrictions and testing requirements for people in high risk areas. Well lets go straight to d. W. Political correspondent kate brady welcome kate can the chancellor get 16 state leaders to line up behind one set of proposals. Well it certainly is going to be a difficult task in the longer that those 16 state premiers and chancellor Angela Merkel stay behind closed doors this even