. >> host: and on your screen now is laurent morgan crenshaw who is with yelp. mr. crenshaw, what do you do for yelp? >> i am their head of federal government policies here in d.c. >> and what is yelp? >> a platform that connects users to the best local businesses that are around them. so it's really, basically, about if there's, you know, a restaurant that you want to go to or a car mechanic or a dry cleaner's, you can go on the platform, see based off of user-generated content basically, people's reviews the places that are around them and basically choose that place and go there. >> host: why are you up here on capitol hill? >> guest: well, we're up here because, one we think it's really important to connect with policymakers but two, actually because one of things that yelp depends on most being those user reviews, it's dependent upon people's ability to share their opinions online. basically, yelp really cares about protecting consumers' online freedom of speech. one of biggest threats has been in the form of -- [inaudible] and, actually, if you give me a momen