On internet platforms each witness has information on algorithms and Machine Learning, as well as engagement and persuasion and brings unique perspectives to these matters. Your participation in this hearing is appreciated mr. Rosensteinly as this committee continues to work on drafting data privacy legislation. Icon veeped this hearing in part to inform legislation im developing that would require internet platforms to give the user information to engage with the platforms without using algorithms pushed by certain data. The vast majority of content on these platforms is at its best, entertaining and beneficial to the public. However they also have the ability or at least potential to influence the thoughts and behaviors of literally billions of people. As one reason why theres widespread unease about the power of these platforms and why its important for the public to understand how they use the algorithms to make inferences from the reams of data about us that affect behavior and in
Exciting enough, for the first time in 13 years, i get to experience freedom. Access and freedom to me mean dont mean the same thing to you. Access to similarly insignificant things, like accessing the shopping mall, accessing the toilet, accessing Public Transportation that are inclusive of people like me. I get to experience it here in america after 13 years. [applause] grace i represent a Huge Community of persons with disabilities who do not have bases, who do not have voices faces, who do not have voices. After so many years, what inclusion and access should be for them, and i am going back to africa to make sure that dream becomes a reality for africans with disabilities. [applause] grace it has become a platform for inspiration for young emerging africans, leaders like you. We come from different countries, from different centers. Yes, united with a common goal for a new africa. [applause] grace that is why, in my song i say yes we can. Sure we can. Change africa. We represent a
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Endingection is about the grotesque levels of income and wealth inequality in america today. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders it is not moral, it is not acceptable, and it is not sustainable, that the top 1 10 of 1 now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 . [booing] top sanders or that the earnedrecent years, has 85 of all new income. That is unacceptable. That must change. [booing] sen. Sanders this election is about remembering where we were seven and a half years ago, when president obama came into office after eight years of republican trickledown economics. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders the republicans want us to forget that as a result of the greed, recklessness, and illegal behavior on wall street, our economy was in the worst economic downturn since the great depression. [cheers and applause]. Sen. Sanders that is where we were. That is where we were. Month wereple a losing their jobs, 800,000 people. We were running up a recordbreaking deficit of 1. 4 trillion, a
The Iraqi Military says its confident they can retake mosul from the militant group. The militants took control of the city in Northern Iraq two years ago. Translator we can completely recapture nineveh province sometime between this year and the first few months of next year. He says units on the Northern Front are being reinforced with weapons and armored vehicles. He says the militants will lose their will to fight if Iraqi Forces Recapture the central city of fallujah. He says that will also give a boost to the troops trying to retake mosul. The militants are launching counter offensives with suicide bombers and chemical weapons and using civilians as human shields. More people are fleeing the areas near mosul as Government Forces step up offensives to retake the city. About 200 families have reportedly arrived at a refugee camp east of mosul in the past two weeks. A man who recently arrived there says Islamic State fighters fear the u. S. Led coalitions air strikes. He says many c