Professor for philosophy at Texas Tech University specializing Political Legal and moral philosophy. Brandon is assistant professor at Bowling Green State University specializing in ethics and moral psychology and social philosophy. We will take audience questions online using cato events. Watching the event posted so they can find it. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having a. Great to be here. To be here briefly, what is grandstanding . The simplest Bumper Sticker description of grandstandin grandstanding, using the discussion of morality and Public Discourse as a vanity project with morality and justice and family values and tradition to draw attention to themselves to look like a moral paragon to think of morley in my end to care about the American Factory worker to be something more detailed thats very simple that it has two parts the grand standards want a certain audience a referenced network to have them come to believe with moral properties recall this recognition desir
The Senate Committee on finance the subcommittee on International Trade customs and Global Competitiveness will come to order. I know this seems a little strange but an empty room except for three witnesses live in front of me and many of our colleagues are going to be joining us virtually. But i want to welcome all of you nonetheless to this important hearing. This subcommittee continues to do its work in exploring the unfair treatment practices of foreign governments and especially china and russia. The topic of censorship in china is a common one because of its growing of facts on this list in the United States as well as culture. Last fall for example the National Basketball association had its Market Access lock in china because individual american citizens used to media platform not allowed in china to express a political opinion. Now the topic is become much more important to the lack of timely Accurate Information about the spread of covid19 due to chinese censorship has contri
Legislators from both the u. S. And canada, discussed the challenges they are facing. Cement was caused by George Washington University Institute for data democracy and politics. Welcome to our continuing conversation about the social media platforms in response to this information campaigns around covid19 pandemic. Very serious situation. Obviously where it lives are literally in the balance. On director of the George Washington University School of many of the public affairs. Affiliated with the institute of data democracy and politics which is presenting this event together with the International Committee on disinformation. Ill be your moderator and your timekeeper and i will continue this conversation with her distinguished panelists and guests. And if you are journalist, please feel free to put your question into the q a. And make sure that is addressed to everybody so that we can all see it and i will try to incorporatee at least some of those questions to our panel in a bit. So
Jose. I should say here in silicon valley, we are in mountain view. Joining me tonight, got director of internet ethics, former chief Security Officer at facebook and director of the stanford intimate observatory. In director of journalism and media ethics. This evening is co presented with ethics, this is part of kq series on common ground. Its an initiative bringing people together for civil discourse featuring journalists, hosting provocative conversations about politics and policy, arts and culture, science and technology. Reckoning with force of disagreement among us about how to face the future, cultural and environmental uncertainty is series asked our shared responsibilities to the common good. Next, if youve got an open calendar tuesday 7 00 p. M. , the San Francisco exploratory them, we will look at how we overcome polarization will talk about tonight. Twelve tonights topic, its under attack, worldwide. Populism is on the rise. This information is number one and social media
This is just the beginning. Good afternoon. Im sarah, executive editor at axios, and welcome to our lives event. Many of your joining us live from wherever you are. We are Live Streaming on facebook, youtube, on twitter and, of course, you can also catch us on axios. Com. If you are on twitter you can join the conversation by using the hashtag axios events and be sure to include our handle at axios. Lets get started. Im coming to today live from a home in washington, d. C. And today we have a very big conversation. Our event is the epidemic of inequality. And today will have an important conversation about systemic racism in our country. The reason were here was marked by the death of george floyd in minneapolis but as everyone has seen in the streets, in cities and in states across our country over the past 11 days theres an underlying problem that is yet to be fully addressed, and with adequate reforms and justice. So today were bringing you four speakers, two with a National Perspec