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Cumulus Media Radio Network Warned Staff to stop 'Dog-Whistle Talk' (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 01/11/2021 - 16:38Tim Berners-Lee Created the Web. Now He’s Out to Remake the Digital World.
Tim Berners-Lee believes the online world has gone astray. Too much power and too much personal data, he says, reside with the tech giants like Google and Facebook — “silos” is the generic term he favors, instead of referring to the companies by name. Fueled by vast troves of data, he says, they have become surveillance platforms and gatekeepers of innovation. Regulators have voiced similar complaints. The big tech companies are facing tougher privacy rules in Europe and some American states, led by California. Google and Facebook have been hit with antitrust suits.
Stripped of Twitter, Trump Faces a New Challenge: How to Command Attention (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 01/11/2021 - 06:46How Parler, a Chosen App of Trump Fans, Became a Test of Free Speech (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 01/11/2021 - 06:46Can Twitter Legally Bar Trump? The First Amendment Says Yes
When Simon & Schuster canceled its plans this week to publish Senator Josh Hawley’s book, he called the action “a direct assault on the First Amendment.” And when Twitter permanently banned President Trump’s account, his family and his supporters said similar things. “We are living Orwell’s 1984,” Donald Trump Jr.
In Pulling Trump’s Megaphone, Twitter Shows Where Power Now Lies
In the end, two billionaires from California did what legions of politicians, prosecutors and power brokers had tried and failed to do for years: They pulled the plug on President Donald Trump. Permanently suspending Trump's accounts was a watershed moment in the history of social media.