Hi everyone, thanks for coming. This session we will break into three parts. In each part we will tackle this question, can democracy survive the internet . We are going to talk about trolls and hackers, leakers, twitter, facebook, filter bubbles. Fundamentally this question is whether a democracy in which media and organization is moved online, whether we can survive or adjust to that new world. A will start with nate, professor of law at stanford law school. His scholarship focuses on Voting Rights, political parties, Campaign Finance, redistricting, and elections administration. He served as special master for expert to craft districting plans for many straight and senior director for the Election Administration and his current work examines changing technology on political communications, campaigns, and Election Administration. Broadly that is what he will be talking about here today. With that, lets welcome nathan. [applause] thank you so much. It is an honor to be here. And it is
Tonight, as arizona and wisconsin are certified, the party of trump has to reap what it has sowed. Then, new reports of Insider Trading by both republicans in the georgia runoffs and 51 days until joe biden takes office. How the fate of his administration could rest on who controls the senate. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Today the states of arizona and wisconsin, hotly contested swing states, certified their election results, formalizing joe bidens victory and all but ending the faintest hope President Trump may have had of stealing the election. But there are millions and millions of Trump Supporters who will not accept that. That is because donald trump and Rupert Murdoch and the rest of the republican political machine and much of the conservative media have spent years, decades metaphorically drugging their supporters, sedating them, feeding them tranquilizers of the mind, lies and conspiracy theories because it helped them at the time and i
You want to ask rick a number of questions about the book and talk with him about it, and then want very muchn to get your questions so please be sure to send that in to the youtube chat. Rick, i find the title of the book quite provocative and you call it cheap speech. What do you mean by cheap speech . First let meti think the Commonwealth Club for putting this forum together. I wouldve hoped we would at this time be doing it in person but hopefully next time were together having a conversation we will be able to do facetoface. And thank youor as always for agreeing to be the interlocutor here. So the term cheap speech is not mine. Its a term that originates with a professor at law school. He wrote an article back in 1995 where he was talking about the coming information revolution. In many ways quite a prescient conversation, a discussion in that piece. He talked about things like what we would now see as the rise of netflix and spotify. He knew that what was going to happen is we a
Chemerinsky, im dean of the Law School University of California Berkeley School of law. Its my great pleasure to be here today with rick has to use Political Science universe of Irvine School of law professor of your weary because rick has written a terrific new book, cheap speech how disinformation poisons our politics. I want to ask rick a number questions about the book and talk with him about it and then want very much to get your questions so please be sure to send them in to the youtube chat. Rick, i find the title of the book quite provocative when you call it cheap speech. What do you mean by cheap speech . Together. I would have hope we could by this time be doing it in person, but hopefully next time that were together having conversation. Well be able to do it face to face and thank you erwin as always for agreeing to be the interlocutor here. So the term cheap speech is not mine. Its a term that originates with a professor at Ucla Law School in eugene. Volik. He wrote an ar
University of California School of law. We are here because rick has written a terrific new book cheap speech how disinformation points as ouron politics and how to cure. Were going to ask rick a number of questions about the book. And then want to get your questions. Please be sure to send them into the youtube chat. Rick, i find the title of the book quite provocative. You call it cheap speech what you mean by cheap speech . Firstly think the Commonwealth Club for putting this form together. I would have helped by the samba could do it in person hopefully next time wet are together havig conversation will be able to do it facetoface with thank you irwin as always for agreeing to be here. The term cheap speech is not mine it originates with a student professor he wrote an article in the yield law journal back in 1995 where he was talking about the upcoming information revolution. And many ways it was a pressing discussion and that piece great talks about things like what would now see