Watch sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Jeff kosip is a professor of cybersecurity law at the u. S. Naval academy and also the author of the book the 26 words that created the internet and these are the 26 words that can be found in section 230 of the Communications Decency act of 1996. They say no provider or user of an Interactive Computer Service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker provided by another content provider. Jeff, explain what those 26 words mean. To understand what they mean you have to first understand the history of why Congress Passed it and the basic rule under the First Amendment going back to bookstores was that distributor of someone elses content would only be held liable if they knew or had reason to know of their legal content and when we started having early Online Services and the clerk started to say, well, if you dont moderate any user content you can receive that protection because youre like a bookstore, but if you moderate user content
Competition. We has to students come in the next 20 years whats the most important change you would like to see in america or whats been the most important change in america . We are featuring our top winning entries. This years first Prize Winners 10th graders from Palo Alto High School in palo alto, california, where cspan is available through comcast. There documentary about fast fashion entitled threads of change. Wildfires ravaged our homes. How the wildfire happened. They would be on survivable. But if our governments lost that, perhaps it is time we shift our focus to empowering individuals. We need to transform fear and despair into actionable hope, especially in the choices we make every day. Consider something most of us encounter daily, fast fashion. A relentless cycle of rapidly produced, cheap clothing, enabling companies to almost sell that jacket. Fast fashion has become popular with consumers but it comes at a high cost to our planet. It relies on cheap manufacturing an
Across the country participated in a 20year anniversary of cspan studentcam documentary competition. We asked students, in the next 20 years, what is the most important change you would like to see in america . Or over the past 20 years, what has been the most important change in america . This month, we are featuring our top 21 winning entries. The High School West winners are 10th graders from palo alto senior high school, where cspan is available through comcast. Their winning documentary talks about fast fashion, the environmental impact, and what can be done about it entitled threads of change. In the intricate art of weaving, every threat is essential. Each strand, while small in its own, contributes to a greater design. Often. Our planet, the tapestry of life, has countless threads, each hoping to change our future, but the tapestry is fraying by the weight of our choices, challenges, and mistakes. Our tapestry can no longer sustain richness and diversity it once held. Our crisi
Say this. Two things, we have our center for Youth Employment as part of the Mayors Office which my wife chairs. The idea is to over the next few years, by 2020 reach a level of 100,000 High School Students each year who are either in a summer job or an internship program. 100,000 each year, we want to start that aggressively this summer, well give you a quick deadline of may 15th. We want to start reaching toward the bigger goal we want to ask everyone whos watching. If you can create an internship or a mentorship effort, we want you to start doing that now, so we can plug in a lot of our young people this summer, and build out over the next few years, thats one second in terms of our pipeline. Were focusing on the maximum number of employees that come out of those efforts. Were constantly coming out of the training resources, we really want to push people. Thank you so much. Thank you much thanks, everyone. President Lyndon Johnson went to the u. S. Capitol on august 6th, 1965 to sig
Hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. The subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection to order. The chair recognizes himself are five minutes for an Opening Statement. Good morning and welcome to the first hearing of 115th congress and Consumer Protection subcommittee, pleasure to be with you today. Before we get started i think chairman burgess for the hard work in the last congress on the subcommittee and also recognize the new vice chairman, the gentleman from mississippi. Glad to have you on board and look forward to working to advance innovation agenda that creates jobs and puts consumers first and also to recognize the gentlelady from illinois, our Ranking Member, working with her this congress and working in a bipartisan fashion to protect consumers. Finally as chairman, look forward to working with all members of the subcommittee to continue exploring areas in the Digital Economy creating new art engines