The Senate Judiciary hearing is one hour 45 minutes. Good morning. We will wait a minute to start but i want to complement for bringing this up to me we will learn a lot today about the social media front. And what we can do to help them better inform parents. So hes on his way i will give an opening statement. That we havent been in a while and after a visit to the border it will give a better idea what we can do legislatively to provide those on the front lines of the chaotic situation on the border and we have a Bipartisan Group and trying to find a solution and i know the folks in texas are struggling mightily. Thank you very much. I will tell you what we will go ahead and get started. Please raise your right hand. Is a testimony the truth the whole truth so help you god . Okay. Welcome mister stone. On the 13th judicial circuit we are proud of your work welcome to washington. Thank you for having me mister chairman. I understand Ranking Member feinstein will not be here but i want
Conspiracy theories most of these right wing extremist parties were built on very strong conspiracy theories about george soros about jewish institutions about joint influences about liberal. Liberal governments conspiring against the people and now you can see how slowly and slowly these kind of ideas and these kind of theories are getting expressed also by their leaders such as. Poland or in hungary and we know that in times of turmoil in tight in difficult times in times of instability where people lose the sense of control over politics these conspiracy theorists organize their knowledge they are helpful in restoring the sense of security and certainty and maybe this is why these ideas that are created on the extreme far right became so prevalent today in politics also in the mainstream politics i want to ask you as well to what extent has the internet. Played a role in all of this in particular social media in fueling the rise of these groups i mean one former white supremacist de
Thank you all of you for joining us today. Pulling together great event as always. Items cap and do it im ator ofe Broadband Access initiative. Nice to see a lot of familiar faces in the audience today. So encompasses not pulling any punches they started off with a i to data mapping. We will jum into the discussion. But before we do i would love to have my panel introduced themselves, amanda kuester. Had a mavis Amanda Martin and impulsive director of the office of Internet Activity helping support all the bipartisan of a structure. Good morning im scott woods president publicprivate partnerships software and Technology Company and i were in the d. C. Office. And Ed Bartholomew senior outreach director for the fcc Broadband Task force i also work as a deputy here and governmental affairs. Im sally doty director of being broadband expansion accessibility of mississippi all right. Look at the event organizers who we should be moot using the mic in great were going to pass right and ill b
That. Someone has to come. [laughter] [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]ank yog us today. Pulling together great event as always. Items cap and do it im a project director of the Broadband Access initiative. Nice to see a lot of familiar faces in the audience so encompasses not pulling any punches they started off with a i to data mapping. We will jump right into the discussion. But before we do i would love to have my panel introduced themselves, amanda kuester. Had a mavis Amanda Martin and impulsive director of the office of Internet Activity helping support all the bipartisan of a structure. Good morning im scott woods president publicprivate partnerships software and Technology Company and i were in the d. C. Office. And Ed Bartholomew senior outreach director for the fcc Broadband Task force i also work as a deputy here and governmental affairs. Im sally doty director of being broadband expansion accessibility of mississippi. All right. Look at the eve
updated? i don t have the answer for you on that. there s a number of policies relevant for this. that may affect you ll commit to providing those to us to explore them together? i will commit to provide a briefing that will have very helpful information. what about a written policy explaining how commercially available information can be used in criminal investigations? i think it s all wrapped up in the same answer i just gave. the reason that this is so important is because the question is whether the fbi uses that data to generate leads for investigations only or further along in the investigative process. there s public reporting on dhs contracts with the same data brokers that i mentioned earlier totalling millions of taxpayer dollars. as you know in the 2018 supreme court decision in carpenter versus united states, the court held that it s a violation of the fourth amendment for the government to access historical local data without a warrant. does the fb