sen. grassley: senator feinstein and i will senator cruz and senator blumenthal. higher education rests on the free flow of ideas. education requires depositions be held tentatively. tested by opposing arguments that are rationally considered. and evaluated. all colleges must protect free speech. public institutions must adhere to the various guarantees of our first amendment. too often, all these fundamental principles have been under assault. people who some exercise their first amendment rights have themselves been assaulted. result, those who would curtail free speech have been emboldened and those who disagree with the prevailing orthodoxy have been censored. point in having a student body on campus if competing ideas are not exchanged and analyzed and respected by each other. college,g community administrators require prior approval for speech in public forums. a twofold violation of the first amendment. amazingly, students there were arrested for disturbing copies of
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and the fight for digital supremacy. before we get into the fight for that digital battlefield, first define some terms for us, especially the important distinction you make in the title and throughout the book about islamists and extremists. guest: i am thrilled to be here to talk to you about something i m passionate about. part of it is that i think islamists, when you think distinguished from extremists you look on a couple of different dimensions. do they play by the rules of the game? what do they say about the constitution? do they use extra electoral means? the big one is do they use violence? do they think violence is a legitimate way in terms of communicating and achieving their goals? when you look at those markers, iu will find by and large think of as lummis as a group that have the foundation and a religious orthodoxy islamists as a group that have the foundation a religious orthodoxy but play by the rules. violences want to use in their views are different.
i m sorry we re a few minutes late in the beginning. we did have a vote in the floor and in the middle of it a colloquy concerning our schedule. this time i recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. good afternoon and a warm welcome to each of our witnesses who are going to join us today. we are here on what has turned gorgeous day in washington d.c. but we re here to talk about an ugly, sorted subject, and that is online sex trafficking. or it s the name of as the organization describeds it more bluntly, slavery. as the stings continue to proliferate, those that thought slavery was something that could never happen in 2017 america have had to confront the terrifying reality that not only is it happening, it s on the rise and in large part because the internet, the technological master piece of our time has made it much easier to do. and both the house and the senate this year are facing up to the challenge with a long over due conversation driving towards
was the suicide room, and when i mentioned that to the publisher she said, that is just a terrific title, and then she said, are you trying to put us out of business? and i said, i d read that book, and she said, that s really not the right title for this book, and we sat and batted it around and there is something about this phrase. i was worried because it would it would come across as judgmental in some way or people would see it as almost bitterly ironic, and that wasn t the intention. it s a much simpler meaning which comes down to and this is what i got comfortable with finally. if you read the book and if you get to know these people inside the book and hear their stories, you ll have a better sense. if you say this ubiquitous phrase, thank you for your service you ll have a much clearer idea of who we are thanking and what you re thanking them for. and so that seemed to be a good title at that point. brian: how many of the people you re writing about in