Now on bbc news, tuesday in parliament. Hello and welcome to tuesday in parliament. As the commons votes to liberalize abortion and extend same sex marriage to Northern Ireland, if devolution is not restored. Isnt it time that we have to stop making women, having to tell their stories, and be re traumatized, just so they can get basic human rights . Mps ask why are the victims of Human Trafficking being locked up . Immigration detention is a racist practise. And the policy being used are racist and discriminate against certain groups. And an environmental legend warns of trouble ahead. If the World Climate change goes on as it is, we are going to be facing huge problems with immigration. All that to come and more, but first. Mps have voted to require the government to liberalize abortion, and extend same sex marriage to Northern Ireland, if devolution is not restored by october the 21st. The commons was debating a bill aimed at keeping Northern Ireland running in the absence of a devol
All of this. It was his vision to create an organization that could curate policy organizations policy conversations when no one really cared about it. Weve had a long time it was not the case that people were not treated as a stakeholder. Other to jerry and the members of the board of directors. I also want to recognize congressman rick white, one of the founders of the internet caucus, thank you for coming. Our next speaker succeeded congressman wei. Jeremy berman founded our organization. Hes been a driving force for having good conversation about and a policy before anyone thought it was important. Jerry will introduce our next speaker. Jerry berman. [applause] mr. Berman is congressman goodlatte here . He is coming in. It is an honor for me to be here and to introduce congressman goodlatte. As many of you know, he is retiring this year after a long run in virginia. He has always been a leader on internet policy. He worked tirelessly on encryption policy, surveillance policy geared
Appreciate. A lot of your venue for good number of those years and i want to thank you as well. This year has been really an interesting year, not only in National Affairs but also in internet policy. Its been a really, really, really interesting, convulsive different year. One of the things a lot of things have changed and we are excited. Put together a great group of speakers who will be here to talk about a lot of those seismic changes that have happened over the lastte year ad also kind of scope out what we think the issue is going to look like. Thats the point of state of the net in january. My name is tim lorton and im the executive director of the organization that was founded by jerrys was over here who you are from at lunch or thought of this organization. And founded the concept forza te state of the net and wanted to thank jerry. [applause] jerry is a giant in the space and were happy to have you back. Youll behi entered to congressn good luck later in the program so you wil
ownership and programming diversity and to now move to address these disparities even though the subject we re taking up today is video and not audio, stating concerns and the state of minority ownership in the video marketplace and even more acute and troubling. no objection. all right. this is a question i have for both mr. barrett and mr. powell around the issue of certificates. in the past, mr. barrett, your association we re representing here today strongly endorse passage of legislation to establish a new communications certificate program. is that still the position? yes, it is. the nab would continue to support such a legislation initiative. and mr. powell, the association that you re representing here today also previously endorsed passage of legislation for new for new communications tax certificate programs. is that still the ncta s position? yes. in 2003 when senator mccain introduced tax certificate as chairman of the fcc it was an enormous proponent