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
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
Pulling down panelists throughout the year talking about what is the most important issues facing the state of the the net. I hope to speak with with as much of you as possible and sit on all of the panels as you know we have some fascinating topics some incredible speakers in the state of the net has 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 communication and informations at the department of commerce. The administrator of the mtia david rettle. Thank you. [applause] well thanks for that introduction, and it is great to be here again at the state of the net, and special thanks to tim for invite megaand congratulations on the Exciting Program youve put together again this year. I would like to take this opportunity to talk about two items on the agenda quick that stand out for me prnlly first is excellent Cybersecurity Panel that is featuring mtia later today evelyn as well as the discussion betwe
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
Newcomers to the world of politics. And the price of exclusive travel five times last week, the Us Health Secretary swapped commercial flights for his own private jet. At what cost to the taxpayer . Hello and welcome. Im katty kay in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. There are two huge natural disasters at the moment. Were going to start in mexico where parents are right now waiting outside a school to see if rescue workers can find their children in the rubble caused by the quake that struck yesterday. We know at least 200 have died in the earthquake we dont know how many more are still trapped. Rescuers across the capital are working anxiously, in some place they are removing debris by hand and from time to time pausing to listen for any signs of life. A lot of the focus is on that Primary School where 20 children and five adults were killed when their classrooms collapsed around them. 30 more students are still missing. Aleem maqbool sent us this report from mexico city.