WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Corporations across America, including big tech companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have announced that they would pull the plug on.
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Jan 11, 2021 08:17 AM EST
Rep. Nunes Wants to Investigate Big Tech Companies after they collude to have Parler banned from their platform, since the banning of Trump and his supporters on Twitter and Facebook.
One of the alternative apps, Parler, has been scrubbed by Apple and Google. Unlike other tech firms, the said app did not censor conservative views, unlike those keen on limiting the platforms communication.
According to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), one of the top GOP representatives in the house on Sunday asked for a racketeering investigation of leading tech firms that have imposed a monopoly, reported NTD.
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The last week’s events should serve as a warning to everyone; a warning that came from Benjamin Franklin many years ago and which also served as the title of a great book, “
A Republic, If You Can Keep It,” by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. For the last several years I felt as we were living in a hyperbolic era, with both sides clamoring that we were headed for civil war. Now what was once hyperbole has become reality, through the dangerous actions of a few.
These actions are not just undemocratic. They are not just un-American. They are not just unconstitutional. They are the makings of the very end of the American Experiment. We are witnessing – if left unchecked – the fall of the Republic.
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A photo illustration shows the suspended Twitter account of US President Donald Trump on a smartphone and the White House in Washington, US, January 8, 2021. Reuters pic
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JAN 11 Twitter Inc lost nearly US$5 billion in market value today after its move to permanently suspend US President Donald Trump’s widely-followed account spurred concern among investors over the future regulation of social networks.
Twitter said on Friday its suspension of Trump’s account, which had 88 million followers, was due to the risk of further violence following the storming of the US Capitol last week.
Consumers around the globe spent an estimated $407.6 million across Apple s App Store and Google Play on Christmas, a year-over-year growth of nearly 35 per cent per cent from approximately $303 million in 2019, according to a new report by data analytics firm Sensor Tower. Between the two platforms, Apple s App Store captured the bulk of the spending at $278.6 million, while Google Play saw $129 million in revenue, said the report. This is in line with the massive growth in worldwide spending on mobile apps and games in 2020 which passed $100 billion in a single year for the first time ever in November. The majority of the holiday spending was on mobile games, which climbed 27 per cent from $232.4 million on Christmas 2019 to $295.6 million this year, said the report.