"Democrats push in Congress to impeach
President Trump for a 2nd time is running into resistance in the US Senate.
Senior lawmakers on both sides of the aisle voicing their opposition to the move.
The siege has caused a split in the GOP between Trump loyalists and establishment Republicans who want a post-defeat break from the president’s brand of politics.
Democrats are preparing to impeach President Trump this week. They are likely to postpone referring the matter to the Senate for a trial until after he leaves the White House.
Senators could vote to bar him from future office. Impeaching require a two-thirds majority in the
Senate, none has said they will definitely vote to convict him.
The decision by Amazon, Google & Apple to remove rightwing social network Parler from their platforms, has provoked a fierce conservative backlash against technology companies."
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Scrambling to deal with a sudden competitive threat to its messaging platform WhatsApp, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) has released a statement clarifying the upcoming changes to its terms of service.
The privacy concerns have already triggered users to turn to rivals in droves, according to data from Sensor Tower.
Signal was downloaded 8.8M times worldwide in the week after the changes were first announced on Jan. 4 vs. 246K times the week prior. Better service no tracking
Telegram, 2nd best, reached 11.9M downloads (vs. 6.5M), while WhatsApp recorded 9.7M downloads following the announcement, a decrease of 14% from the week before.
We’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.Because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong.”
In District of Columbia, it’s a crime to “intentionally or recklessly act in such a manner to cause
another person to be in reasonable fear”
and to “incite or provoke violence where there is a likelihood that such violence will ensue.”
This language is based on Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), in which the Supreme Court set the standard for speech that
Trump spoke to reporters again on the tarmac of Joint Base Andrews in Maryland and said he didn’t incite the riot. “They’ve analyzed my speech and my words and my final paragraph, my final sentence. And everybody to the tee thought it was totally appropriate,” Trump said.
Trump also lashed out also at Big Tech companies that have censored him following the riot and purged many accounts of alleged conspiracy theorists. Trump was permanently banned by Twitter and banned from using Facebook or Instagram until at least after Biden’s inauguration.
"24/12/2020, China’s market regulator began an antitrust probe into Alibaba & sent investigators to its headquarters
of Hangzhou.
Announcement came after the party’s politburo targeted monopoly businesses to prevent “disorderly expansion of capital”.
The move on Alibaba also came two months after financial regulators dramatically cancelled Ant’s planned $37bn initial public offering, which would have been the world’s largest.
The measures amount to unprecedented squeeze on a business whose ubiquitous services are central to
Opinion FT Alphaville Guest post 6 HOURS AGO
"A strong recovery could be bad for asset prices"
Global liquidity will continue to pour into the world economy. But how will that impact asset prices and the recovery? ft.com/content/4429c2… via @FinancialTimes
Michael J. Howell founded CrossBorder Capital, a London-based advisory investment management company in 1996. He published a book "Capital Wars" on the turbulent rise of global liquidity. In this post, he argues that despite the pool
of cash and credit available to investors breaking fresh records in 2021, global liquidity may prove to be more positive for economies than for asset markets.
When liquidity concentrates in asset markets, measures of so-called monetary velocity — calculated using the ratio of
Congress has co-opted Silicon Valley to do through the back door what government cannot directly accomplish under the Constitution, write @VivekGRamaswamy and Jed Rubenfeld wsj.com/articles/save-… via @WSJ
Facebook and Twitter banned President Trump and numerous supporters after last week’s disgraceful Capitol riot, and Google, Apple and Amazon blocked Twitter alternative Parler—all based on claims of “incitement to violence” and “hate speech.”
Silicon Valley titans cite their ever-changing “terms of service,” but their selective enforcement suggests political motives.
Conventional wisdom holds that technology companies are free to regulate content because they are private, and the