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
Cspan. Org landmark cases. Thursday morning were live in montgomery, alabama, for the next stop on the cspan bus 50 capitals to work. Alabama Senate President pro tempore del march will be our guest on the bus during washington journal. Starting at 9 30 a. M. Eastern. Witnesses from facebook, youtube and twitter talk about what the companies are doing to prevent criminal activity by users and the tech sectors cooperation with Law Enforcement. The Senate Commerce and finance Committee Held a hearing last week. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. I want to thank everyone for being a 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
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Cuts and no contract. Reporter is this life changing . Yes, it is, it changed ply life a lot how the government is helping hundreds of thousands of lou income americans get online a 2day Nuclear Summit wrapped up. President obama touted success. He said the 56 nations that took parts in the summit agreed more needs to be done to secure the worlds nuclear safety. National security correspondent Jamie Mcintyre reports from the site of the summit. The president boasted that the nations meeting here have achieved something remarkable. More than 30 counties had enriched uranium and plutonium have been removed. Now when criminal gangs and arms murch ants look around for ingredients. Vast regions of the world are off limits in the same hall where president obama opened the first summit six years ago he sounded an ominous warning. Just the smallest amount of plut owniums, the size of an apple could kill and injure hundreds of thousands. It would humanitarian political and environmental catastr
Material to make nuclear devices, they will see large portion of the world are off limits limits. Reporter in the same hall where this was opened six years ago, he sounded an ominous warning of the growing threat of Nuclear Terrorism the amount the size of an apple can kill thousands of innocent people. It would be a catastrophe where global ramifications for decades. It would change our world. Reporter the leaders and delegates from more than 50 nations all committed to various ways to secure nuclear bombmaking materials such as highly enriched uranium and other materials which can be used to make a dirty bomb. Theres no doubt that if these madmen got their hands on nuclear bomb or material, they would use it to kill as many innocent people as possible. We have to stop securing these materials like theyre Library Books and securing them like theyre the gold of fort knocks. Reporter a man that advocates for Smaller Nuclear stock piles. He gives obama credit for making headway, securing