Watch sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Jeff kosip is a professor of cybersecurity law at the u. S. Naval academy and also the author of the book the 26 words that created the internet and these are the 26 words that can be found in section 230 of the Communications Decency act of 1996. They say no provider or user of an Interactive Computer Service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker provided by another content provider. Jeff, explain what those 26 words mean. To understand what they mean you have to first understand the history of why Congress Passed it and the basic rule under the First Amendment going back to bookstores was that distributor of someone elses content would only be held liable if they knew or had reason to know of their legal content and when we started having early Online Services and the clerk started to say, well, if you dont moderate any user content you can receive that protection because youre like a bookstore, but if you moderate user content
Smiles on their faces. The big news democrat Rafael Warnock unseating senator Kelly Leffler in the Georgia Senate runoff race. Warnock becomes georgias first africanamerican elected to the senate. We heard from him a few hours ago. He declared victory in this race and said hes going to go to washington and look out for all georgians. Take a listen. I am honored by the faith you have shown in me and i promise you this tonight. I am going to the senate to work for all of georgia. We are going to keep fighting for you. This is about protecting the american dream. I will never stop fighting for this country, the american dream. Each one of you so every georgian has a voice in washington, i work for you. Reporter you heard from senator leffler, the fight is not over yet but democrats presumably picking up one seat in georgia. Republicans Still Holding on to a slight majority in the senate with 51 seats but that could change if Democrat John ossoff is able to follow up with the same success
Senator amy klobuchar, thank you for joining us. Appreciate it and sorry for what you had to go through tonight, today and tonight lawrence, this is not about us. No way. This is what our country has been going through for four years. Senator klobuchar, tahank yo for joining us. Appreciate it. Thank you. As you can see, the house is still voting. That was the screen that you had up there but it looks like the republican vote count in favor of those objections is going to be less than what it was indicated yesterday. If you add the not voting republicans to the yes column right now, that would bring it up to 131. There was over 140 said they would vote yes for the on squ n objections so the subpoepport f the house and senate seems to be
diminishing. Msnbc coverage continuing, live coverage of the situation in the capitol tonight continues now with my colleague brian williams. Well, good evening. Thank you, lawrence. Please dont go anywhere. Im coming right back to you after i say that d
Dozens of books in Tennessee public schools are being challenged. Some school boards and parents want to ban books that talk about racism, gender or sexual orientation.
joining me now is the founder and editor in chief of talking points memo, josh marshall. congrats on the reporting, it s great stuff. it s great work, and we re so proud of them. there s a bunch to get to hear, but first let s start on this point. i think there is always this question, where you see holly cruz in particular, they re like, they re sort of performing this form of politics, but there is something really upsetting, even if slightly from 22 members themselves about all these people, series people, with serious jobs empower not series people, they have serious jobs. there are people that are elected representatives in congress just trafficking back and forth, digging at that not a stuff you can imagine. that s really the thing. one of the biggest takeaways from these tax is a lot of this dialogue that is happening with meadows and abbott in all these