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
Im the dean of the law school the university of California Berkeley School of law as my great pleasure to be here today with russia rick kasson. Whos the chancellors first of law and Political Science the university of california Irvine School of law. Were here because rick is written a terrific new book cheap speech how disinformation poisons are politics and how to cure it. You want to ask rick number of questions about the book and talk with them about it. And then what 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 . Well first let me thank the Commonwealth Club for putting this form 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
Francisco and surrounding counties are prohibited from leaving their homes except for essential needs in an effort to stop the spread of the virus there and basically the shelter in place order that we already saw in italy and across western europe now. Ohio Governor Mike Dewine says his state should postpone the primaries scheduled to take place tomorrow saying quote, we cannot tell people to stay inside but also tell them to go out and vote. Now i should say a court rejected that idea a short while ago but that is likely to be appealed and the decision could be reversed. Right now, schools in 35 states have closed. Several major cities outside those states have done the same. Last night, the centers for Disease Control issued a warning against gatherings of more than 50 people more at least the next eight weeks. Even though this is a pandemic that were trying to get a handle on as a country, right now as it stands, we do not have a National Shutdown like in italy. We are seeing inste
Bombed desert targets and above it all, an awax kept track of the war games. Six b52s flew nonstop from north dakota to hit the target 70 miles from cairo. That was november 1981. A fake war in egypt. It apparently cost one paratrooper a broken hip. Otherwise it was considered a big success. Weve been holding big fake wars in egypt ever since. The first one was in 1980 after egypt signed a peace treaty with israel. We held a fake war with egypt. A big military joint Training Exercise in 1980. Again, we did that really big one in 1981. Then everybody had so much fun and it started to turn into such a big operation with so many tens of thousands of troops participating from an everincreasing list of countries that they decided they were going to have to hold this thing every two years instead of every year because it took so long to plan and it was so expensive to do. But we have been doing it biannually every couple of years ever since. The basic idea is that, well, in part, war games a