Inequality, trust in government, and political stability. This week on the communicator a discussion of some of the tech issues that made play a role in campaign 2020. Joining us from washington d. C. Is a barron souk who is a founder of a group called tech freedom. And from los angeles, jessica is coceo of a group called free press. Ms. Gonzalo, i want to start with news that is breaking as we are taping this. And that is a potential look at section 230, the liability portion of the Communications Act. Impossible changes to it. First of all, what is your view and your groups view on section 230 . And what you think about possible changes . Section 230 is an important mechanism to defend free speech on the internet. We think that it should largely remain in place. In many of the attacks on 230 and especially the president executive order that he issued in response to twitter, Fact Checking amounts to very problematic censorship that runs contrary to the First Amendment. There in your i
Opportunity. You may or may not know that tulsa is one of six chapters throughout the country to host a pen america chapter, we have pen america tulsa, im really proud to say im the leader of that group and its been a relationship that just gets better and better. We had the opportunity to do several events with pen, probably even prior to our affiliation as an actual chapter. It really started laying the groundwork for this relationship moving forward. Its something that if you dont know the work that penn does, its a very inextricably linked to what we are talking about tonight in many ways. Pen is an organization that advocates for authors, for freedom of the press, for all kinds of important things that are tied to the mission we have through magic city books and the tulsa literary coalition. If you dont know their work i would invite you to go to pen. Org and see every thing they are doing. There is so much going on with limitations to press freedoms, every day something is happen
Six chapters that the country to host a pin america chapter, we opinion america tulsa and im really proud to say im the leader of the group and its been a relationship that gets better and better. Weve had the opportunity to do several event with pin and prior to affiliation as an actual chapter and started laying the groundwork for this relationship moving forward and its something if you dont know the work that they do, its been veranamazing organization advocs for authors and freedom of the press and all kinds of important things in the mission that we have with the Tulsa Literary Coalition and it is a membership driven program and organization and i would invite you to go to pen. Org and see everything that they are doing especially right now. There is so much going on with limitations to press freedoms, everyday something is happening that we didnt probably know about in the work that is happening. We have a special membership promo and if you go to the website you can use the cod
Historically, probably dealing with terms like fascism and populism and nationalism but before we do that i want to spend just a moment talking about what we are going to do with the technology. Number one, asking all the videos to stay off. So we dont get video bombed and so that we use all of our bandwidth for the conversation as opposed to video. Number two, to ask questions rather than doing it orally, what we are going to ask you to do is to type your question into the chat box, to do that, if youre familiar with zoom, if you run your cursor across the screen youll see at the bottom box that says chat, click on chat and you will see off to the right hand side of your screen a line at the bottom where you can type in your questions and comments. As we go through this discussion with Larry Rosenthal, if youd be good enough to type in your questions as they happen, they will come directly to me, they will not be shared with the rest of the group because we suspect there may be some t
Rights on school grounds. Then at 9 35, New York Times versus United States which restricted the governments power over the press and broadened journalists First Amendment protections. Watch landmark cases, tonight on cspan3 and any time at cspan. Org. Wednesday night on American History tv beginning at 8 00 eastern. Congressman john lewis. The 17term democrat from georgia recently died at the age of 80 and will be buried on thursday. Before joining congress he was influential in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. In 2019 congressman lewis gave the keynote address at a ceremony offering pioneering africanamerican tennis player arthur ashe. Watch American History tv tonight on cspan3. All persons having business before the honorable, and the Supreme Court of the United States admonished who draw near and give their attention. Landmark cases, cspans special history series produced in partnership with the National Constitution center. Exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas be