Is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan is the unfiltered view of government. Next a look at the congressional mailing rules during a hearing of the House Modernization Committee and experts will talk about how social media is going to affect the way congresspeople communicate with their constituents. This is late yesterday and is about an hour. All right. The meeting is coming to order and without notice the chair is allowed to call this meeting to a conclusion at any time. I now recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Happy halloween, everybody. I am dressed as americas most maligned super hero congress man and able to fly across the country in six hours on alaskan airlines. We were thinking about titling this hearing frankingstein, and how the houses ghoul ishmaeling standards have haunted the members for decades, but i suppose the unspooky title for record, and like most of issues that fall into this committees mandating and the work o
Can we adjust to that new world. He served as the special master of the redistricting plan for many states and his current work examines the impact of changing technology for Political Communications and andtion administrations that is what he will be talking about here today. That, welcome nate. [applause] thank you so much. Its an honor to be here and on this panel. The table andset they will break the china. I will talk about the issues and they are going to does this is a deep dive anyway. They will dive deeply into it. Topic. S is a big the question of how the internet affects democracy. What are the unique challenges that the internet poses for democracy. , what would reforms look like . I want to start with a few caveats, which there are several always get these objections whenever i talk about democracy and the internet, which is we have all seen this before. That is the first academic disagreement. And the answer is, yes. Some of these problems we have seen before. Yes, we hav
Professor of law at stanford law school. His scholarship focuses on Voting Rights, political parties, Campaign Finance, redistricting, and elections administration. He served as special master for expert to craft districting plans for many straight and senior director for the Election Administration and his current work examines changing technology on political communications, campaigns, and Election Administration. Broadly that is what he will be talking about here today. With that, lets welcome nathan. [applause] thank you so much. It is an honor to be here. And it is an honor to be on this panel. We have a lot of people following me. My role is to set the table and they are going to break the china. I will talk about the issues and they will dive deeply into it. Obviously,ig topic dealing with the question of how the internet affects democracy. I want to focus on three questions. Want to focus on three questions. The first is what are the unique challenges that the internet poses fo
Professor of law at stanford law school. His scholarship focuses on Voting Rights, political parties, Campaign Finance, redistricting, and elections administration. He served as special master for expert to craft districting plans for many straight and senior director for the Election Administration and his current work examines changing technology on political communications, campaigns, and Election Administration. Broadly that is what he will be talking about here today. With that, lets welcome nathan. [applause] thank you so much. It is an honor to be here. And it is an honor to be on this panel. We have a lot of people following me. My role is to set the table and they are going to break the china. I will talk about the issues and they will dive deeply into it. Obviously,ig topic dealing with the question of how the internet affects democracy. I want to focus on three questions. Want to focus on three questions. The first is what are the unique challenges that the internet poses fo
A website as cspan. Work. Of attacks on cspan, a look at a history, current state and future of the internet and it is fluent on democracy. The white house chief digital officer for technology and journalist and former assistance security,or national participated in this discussion at the aspen ideas festival. Of thank you for comment. This session will break down into three parts and in each part we wont how who the question, cap we will talk about the question, can democracy say the internet . We will talk about bots, leakers, facebook. Whether democracy in which media and organizations has moved, everything moved online more weather we can survive or just. Ld. A will start with nate, professor of law at stanford law im going to start with nate persily. Nate is the james b. Mcclatchy professor of law at Stanford Law School and his scholarship focuses on Voting Rights, political parties, Campaign Finance, redistricting and Election Administration. He served as a special master or expe