Vote the presiding officer any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not the yeas are 72. The nays are 18. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator for south dakota. Mr. Thune i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session and be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Thune mr. President , every american has had to deal with annoying and Illegal Robocalls. All of us have been ininterrupted at one point or time announcing we won a prize or needing important banking information so that our account wont be closed. These calls are a major nuisance but of course theyre not just a nuisance, mr. President. Too Many Americans fal
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac i think a lot of the sites that were all concerned about, i dont think should be entitled to section 230 protections. The problem is, section 230 is often decided at a very early stage. So theres no discovery to determine whether the platform has contributed to the development of the content that doesnt receive section 230 protections. I would like to see a standard where the judge believes theres reasonable cause that its contributed to the content. We do that for personal jurisdiction. I think that would be a way to go after the bad actors that never should be getting protected by section 230 while still preserving protections for the sites that really are not contributing to the material. Thats one thing. The second is, i hear from people on all sides about various issues with 230 ranging from there shouldnt be any moderation to there shouldnt be any protection at all. This is all a
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We begin in saudi arabia where three female activists have been granted temporary release after being after spending months in prison. They are among 11 women arrested last year. On others will be released sunday. The women say they have been sexually harassed, given electric shock and threatened by the guards. Executive now. It addresses violence and discrimination against women around the world. The detention is illegal and immoral. Here hoping that the International Pressure on this will have an effect on what happens to these women going forward. We are delighted that they are not going before the Specialized Court on terrorism charges, but they are still going. We do not know what to make of it. They have not been given access to lawyers or been able to see their families. It has been a Chilling Effect all around saudi arabia. We are going to continue activism on their behalf and we hope it will have a positive effect on their cases. People are not supposed to be tortured in priso
Nations should be more open to israel america gosh the minister of state for Foreign Affairs said countries were wrong when they decided not to have formal relations with israel aljazeera senior political analyst moblin bashar has more on those comments a number of arab countries have been opening up publicly or clandestinely towards israel and we have been waiting for a lot like syria and saudi arabia not to cough it up as you know and just say that now with the minister of state for Foreign Affairs in the United Arab Emirates have has done exactly that and why is he doing that now well because its just a few weeks ago. President trumps son in law judge question that was in the area in order to sell his date of the century we know it now we all know that this is the trap of the century rather than the deal of the century and yet a number of arab leaders feel they must appease the United States they must accept american diktats in order to. Save their own regimes in order to empower th