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Twitter CEO defends President Trumps ban, warns of dangerous precedent Share Updated: 3:35 PM CST Jan 14, 2021 By DAVID HAMILTON, AP Technology Editor Twitter CEO defends President Trumps ban, warns of dangerous precedent Share Updated: 3:35 PM CST Jan 14, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript we had an election that was stolen from us. Some of the biggest peddlers of the conspiracy theory that Trump didnt lose the election, including the president himself, hav...

The power of these companies to control public discourse is a clear and present danger to everyone who values free speech.

While Twitter moved to suppress the communications of the President of the United States, for supposed safety reasons, Islamic terrorist accounts still proliferate on the platform. Fatah is able to use Twitter to send tweets promoting attacks on Israel like this one featuring rock throwers. Another Fatah tweet explictly praises a terrorist as a "martyr".  "The occupation handed over the body of the martyr, Dr. Maher Zaatarah, 35, last night, 10 months after he was detained, for all...

Twitter has banned President Trump from its platform permanently, following an initial ban of 12 hours.

Executive Summary Over the past year, governments have made unprecedented demands for online platforms to police speech, and many companies are rushing to comply. But in their response to calls to remove objectionable content, social media companies and platforms have all too often censored valuable speech. While it is reasonable for companies to moderate some content, no one wins when companies and governments can censor online speech without transparency, notice, or due process. This year’s...

Malicious HTTPS certificate from Kazakhstan gets Safari ban December 21, 2020 8:53 PM UTC by Samantha Wiley Apple and browser companies Mozilla, Microsoft, and Google have all blocked a root certificate that’s being used by the government to spy on the citizens of Kazakhstan. Google, Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla has agreed to block the HTTPS certificate and ban it from their browsers. The moment the root certificate is accessed there will be an error message saying how it can’t be used. The...

2020 was a challenging year. With majority of the global population locked up indoors, bibliophiles couldnt help but seek refuge in the world of books to escape the tough times. As they say, tough times dont last - tough people do. And since 2020 qualifies as tough times, as Bill Gates says in his blog post, theres no better time to read a book than now. In a no-holds-barred blog post, Gates wrote that there were times when he wanted to dwelve deeper into social issues like Black Lives Matter p...

It’s kind of sweet how different people make different mistakes of the same kind. So, when one kind of people ‘recognise’ their mistakes, it’s doubly sweet — and only fair that the other kind also stand up and be counted. We refer to the US Captioning Company, which subtitles real-time events on TV, coming up with a ‘Famous Names Most Mispronounced’ list. As expected from an American list, ‘Kamala’ of Harris fame is in it, as is ‘Fauci’ (Fow-chee), the surname of the immu...

Many years before he was a published novelist, Jeffrey Archer was an MP in Britain. And then came financial ruin. “I felt I was doing well in Parliament, until I made a remarkably foolish investment. I was advised that this company was going to be a huge success, that my shares would double. I stupidly borrowed money and ended up with a debt of 400,000 pounds — a lot of money 45 years ago,” Archer said recently at an online event. He stood down as MP in 1974 and started writing his first ...