Unfiltered new of government. Created by americas Cable Television companies on a as a public service, and brought to you today by your television provider. This week on the communicators, a discussion of tech issues that may play a role in campaign 20 20. Joining us from washington, d. C. Is berin szoka, techfreedom founder senior fellow. And from los angeles, Jessica Gonzales, free press coceo. Ms. Gonzales, i want to start with news that is breaking as we are taping this. That is a potential look at section 230, the liability portion of the Communications Act, and possible changes to it. What is your view and your groups view on section 230, and what do you think about possible changes . Jessica section 230 is an important mechanism to defend free speech on the internet. We think it should largely remain in place. Many of the attacks on 230, and especially the president s executive order he issued in response to twitter Fact Checking is very problematic censorship that runs contrary
Generals office and i worked with the sec. Can suitably over the years and we have panel with us today and we will have Georgetown University and former director of the bureau of Consumer Protections for federal trade commission and we will have matt sheared president of the computer and the [inaudible] in here to discuss the deferment of justices proposal we have Lauren Willard who is counselor to the attorney general. We are lucky to have this great panel here and ms. Willard will walk us through that puzzle and then for offered commentary about the consumer side of things and we have [inaudible]. Again i want to give a little level set and im sure most of the people who dialed in have had familiarity with section 230 as they understand what its about but i want to give history on these things and to get context to these venues and so forth. We talked about the Communications Decency act, section 230 with the recent or fairly recent but the wolf of wall street and in particular the j
Cspan3. All persons having persons before the honorable, Supreme Court of the United States who admonish to draw near and give their attention. Landmark cases, cspan special history series produced in partnership with the National Constitution center exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic Supreme Court decisions. Mr. Chief justice may it please the court. Quite often in many of the most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of different people who help stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspan landmark cases. Tonights case is katz versus the United States, it is a 1967 case and the person who gave his name to the case is somewhat of an unlikely hero. He was a bookmaker specializing in College Basketball games and he took his wiretapping case to the Supreme Court an
Dow jones industrials, mark it at down 167 points, low of the session, a loss of 271 so we are off that. We have the s p down 12, the nasdaq lower by 11. So what we need to do is talk about right before we go there, the discussion which will intersect with the worrisome news that some states, including florida, texas, are now seeing sudden increases in new cases in the wake of reopening their economies. Lets go straight to the white house where blake burman is standing by. You are waiting with us for this event. What is expected to be the real focus here . Reporter well, we have seen this over the last several weeks here at the white house, liz, as governors, republican and democrat, have come over here to the white house to sit down with President Trump, talk about the reopening in their states and their future plans to reopen, going on down the line. Im told from a white house official this event coming up here is along those lines. As President Trump will be sitting down with the go
Has ordered people to wear face masks in public if they cannot social distance. One of the big focuses right now is on Contact Tracing, trying to identify who may have come in contact with an infected person. Abc7 News Reporter kris reyes is live in San Francisco with this important part of the investigation and how it can help reduce infections. Chris . Good afternoon, liz. For people who are hearing this term for the first time, it simply means the ability of Public Health officials to track down every Single Person that a covid19 positive patient came into contact with. And you can imagine as cases have grown how complicated this task is. Well, today mayor london breed announced the citys ability to do widespread Contact Tracing investigations and how it will help reopen the economy. Have a listen. Our goal is to chase down all of those people and to either help them if they are covid and get them into quarantine, or to basically give them the relief that they are not infeblged. It