The year the world took on big tech
After 25 years of kneeling before the internet companies now known as big tech, something remarkable happened in 2020. The US government stood up - and all hell broke loose.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks via video conference during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on antitrust in Washington in July. Â
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In a year when the Zoom call became a daily and forgettable part of life for countless millions of people around the globe, one Zoom call stood out as worth remembering.
It happened in July, initiated from a congressional office building in Washington DC, right across the road from the US Capitol.
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VICTORIA (NEWS 1130) An epidemiologist in Australia says a comment made by the B.C. premier a month ago about COVID-19 and kids is “wrong” and “horrifying to hear.”
During a news conference on Nov. 18, while answering a question about what additional restrictions were being considered, John Horgan said, “children are not transmitters of COVID.”
“Adults working within the K to 12 system are bringing the virus into the classrooms and bring it into the schools and that’s led to outbreaks in pockets of British Columbia,” he added.
Top 20 podcast episodes in 2020
By Jerome Doraisamy|20 December 2020
2020 saw extraordinary growth on The Lawyers Weekly Show. Here’s what you listened to this year on our primary podcast stream.
This past year has seen The Lawyers Weekly Show hit new heights, with monthly downloads now regularly topping 20,000 per month. It has been a year like no other, and our audio content has subsequently been rich, diverse and illuminating in conjunction with such times.
Here, we count down the top 20 episodes for 2020, as per the rate of downloads by you, our dedicated audience!
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