Thousands of U.S. troops set to return home are now staying in Europe. That’s as the new administration reviews the Trump administration’s plan to withdraw troops. Trump’s plan had been to withdraw around 12,000 troops from Germany; half would have come home and the other half would have gone to other parts of Europe. Amazon founder…
Deep Dive (Feb. 3): Big Tech Could Face $100,000 Daily Fines Under New Florida Law
American Elites Seek to Rig the Game
Commentary In the aftermath of the disgraceful Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, the American ruling class has flexed its muscles like never before. Big Tech oligarchs moved in unison to kneecap upstart Parler, a would-be Twitter competitor, and ban former President Donald Trump and scores of other conservatives. Simon & Schuster, one of…
Facebook Cancels Abe Lincoln
Commentary Facebook has a problem with America’s greatest president. Abraham Lincoln’s run-in with the tech giant began late last year, when Republic Book Publishers decided to buy social media ads for my new historical novel, “Old Abe.” The marketing team created and submitted ads to a handful of platforms. Right away, to our surprise, we…
Debate Heats Up Over How Countries Tax Big Tech Companies
FRANKFURT, Germany—An international debate over how countries tax big U.S. technology companies such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook is heating up, presenting a challenge for President Joe Biden’s new administration. A mid-year deadline is on the horizon for talks about a global deal to defuse trade disputes with France and other countries that are imposing…
Our Tech Minders and the Future of Public Discourse
Commentary Both Apple and Google have deplatformed Parler, a social media app widely used as an alternative channel for group communication. Amazon soon joined this effort by denying access to cloud services hosting Parler content. Other service providers apparently followed suit, constricting and perhaps exterminating Parler from among the options available to consumers. Parler was…
Facebook to Reduce Political Content on Platform
Facebook is working toward reducing the amount of political content on the platform following feedback from its users, the company CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday. “One of the top pieces of feedback we’re hearing from our community right now is that people don’t want politics and fighting to take over their experience on our…
Deep Dive (Jan. 25): Split Over Trump Impeachment Trial Grows
Thousands of national guards are set to stay in Washington D.C. due to security concerns around the impeachment trial. The impeachment trial is pushing forward despite there being mixed views as to whether impeachment is constitutional now that Trump has left office. Amazon is trying to block a warehouse union vote by mail. It’s pushing…
Australia Risks Confrontation With Biden Administration Over Big Tech: Expert
January 25, 2021
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Silicon Valley is hoping a Biden administration will push back an impending wave of global regulation aimed at curbing the power of the tech giants, with Australia likely to be in the crosshairs, according to one expert. “Big Tech went big for Biden in 2020 and is now an important constituency of what might be…
How to Reform Big Tech
Commentary Big Tech has become too powerful and needs to be reformed, Republicans and Democrats agree. Even Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg agrees. “At Facebook, we don’t think tech companies should be making so many decisions about these important issues alone,” he testified to Congress in October 2020. “We stand ready to work with Congress on what…
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The Nation Speaks (Jan. 30): Critical Race Theory: Lawsuits & Cancelling Lincoln; Biden’s Immigration Woes
In this episode of The Nation Speaks, we take a look at a Catholic school lawsuit; the cancellation of Abraham Lincoln; and what all this has in common with China. And finally, what can we expect from the Biden administration on immigration, crime, and justice.