What Trump s Twitter Ban Means For The Rest Of The World
By closing Donald Trump s social media accounts, the Big Tech platforms have recognized for the first time their fundamental responsibility for the content they broadcast. But for this and other reasons that now also means the regulators must step up.
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PARIS Do we have the right to silence a man for taking extreme positions, particularly if we are a private company? And what if the individual in question is the democratically elected head of state? These philosophical questions have suddenly become urgent with Twitter s decision to ban the account of the American president, Donald Trump, after the whole world watched in dismay as his supporters invaded the Capitol.
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Sputnik International
By Chris Black
And now you know why there has been a push to have all of the digital services live “in the cloud” instead of companies and people owning their own infrastructure
Facebook bans “potentially violent content” “Stop the Steal” before Inauguration Day on January 20, including a temporary large-scale ban on phrases associated with the MAGA crowd that stormed the Capitol building on January 6th. The policy, detailed in a post published Monday by Facebook Vice Presidents Guy Rosen and Monika Bickert (check the early life section), includes any content that contains the words “Stop the Steal”.
Facebook will begin removing all content that mentions the phrase “stop the steal,” a full 69 days after Election Day.
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SPOTLIGHT: SWEDEN REVISITED, FROM NORDIC MODEL TO PANDEMIC PARIAH
On one of the final Fridays of 2020, I passed through the Malmö airport customs and underwent that subtle metamorphosis from
BFMTV: “We can consider the deal as lose-lose, because in any case, Brexit is re-establishing borders, resistance, and friction in commercial trade, where it did not exist before.
“But, it is also win-win, because it minimises the [would-be] impact of a no-deal, and goes far beyond the issue of tariffs and quotas.”
Ms Fabry added that the deal would also allow production chains within the automotive and aeronautics sectors to continue without customs duties, which is considered to be a key win for these crucial industries in France.
But she said that there would likely be an increase in the amount and cost of checks on issues such as pet travel, veterinary requirements, and health products.