Suppose you were Mark Zuckerberg, recently ordered by an advisory board to decide how long former U.S. President Donald Trump should stay banned from Facebook. How do you make that decision without alienating key constituencies advertisers, shareholders, users, lawmakers and others while staying true to your own sense of what Facebook should be? It s a hypothetical exercise, but one that illustrates the high-wire act Facebook s leadership now has to pull off. Facebook s quasi-independent oversight board last week said the company was justified in suspending Trump because of his role in inciting deadly violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. But it told Facebook to specify how long the suspension would last, saying that its indefinite ban on the former president was unreasonable.
Below is an updated version of my column in the Hill on Facebook’s decision to uphold the ban on former president Donald Trump. Notably, this weekend, Twitter took it upon itself to add a gratuitous response to an observation made by Donald Trump Jr. after he tweeted “Biden isn’t the next FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] he’s the next Jimmy Carter.” Twitter took it upon itself to say that many are “confused” by the remark since Carter was a great humanitarian and noble prize winner. It was a telling moment. These companies now act as either censors or officious intermeddlers when it comes to comments made on the platforms. They view themselves as a party to any postings and that viewpoints must be corrected or clarified to advance the corporate position.
, the majority of hydrogen is actually produced from fossil fuels: namely, methane (natural gas) and coal.
Analysis shows that hydrogen is also currently inefficient and cost-prohibitive when compared with the approach to decarbonise the economy known as the electrification of everything, which would involve switching the majority of transportation and heating from burning fossil fuels to electricity produced increasingly by renewables.
All of this hydrogen hype raises a lot of questions.
What is hydrogen energy?
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and can be used as a way to store and carry energy much like a battery which is why it is appealing as a way to replace burning fossil fuels for transportation, heat and power.
University of California at Irvine law dean Erwin Chemerinsky has a request for one and possibly two justices.
Chemerinsky says in a Los Angeles Times op-ed that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who turned 81 on Saturday, should retire this summer so President Obama can appoint a successor. “Indeed, Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who will turn 76 this summer, should also carefully consider the possibility of stepping down this year,” Chemerinsky writes.
“A great deal turns on who picks Ginsburg’s successor,” Chemerinsky writes. “There are, for example, four likely votes to overturn
Roe vs. Wade on the current court: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. If a Republican president selects Ginsburg’s replacement, that justice easily could be the fifth vote needed to allow the government to prohibit all abortions. On many cases including ones involving environmental law, healthcare, gay marriage, the death pen