January 20, 2021 Why did Amazon wait until Biden’s inauguration to offer help with vaccine distribution? Shortly after President Joe Biden was sworn into office Wednesday, Amazon congratulated him on his inauguration and offered their extensive resources to help the new administration in its vaccination effort.Â
January 18, 2021 Alex Berenson: Shutdown of Parler is Big Tech's 'most dangerous' move yet Author and former New York Times journalist Alex Berenson, who has sparred with Amazon in the past, feels that the company’s move to shut down Parler illustrates how dangerous it is that Big Tech can silence whomever it chooses. Â
January 17, 2021 Parler CEO: 'No indication' Big Tech shutdown threats were 'deadly serious' until last minute Big Tech giants Amazon, Apple and Google gave no indication to upstart social media platform Parler until the very last moment that their threats to pull the plug were "deadly serious," Parler CEO John Matze told "Life, Liberty & Levin" in an interview airing Sunday night.
January 15, 2021 Parler CEO John Matze, family forced into hiding over death threats, security breaches: court filing A new court filing on Friday from the Parler legal team revealed its CEO John Matze and his family are now in hiding over death threats and security breaches they have faced.
January 14, 2021 Hear it: Amazon's electric delivery van is loud The electric delivery van that Rivian is building for Amazon features a pedestrian warning system that emits a hum as the vehicle drives at low speeds.
January 14, 2021 Want to get away from Big Tech? Here’s how The recent ban of Parler from Apple and Google’s app stores and the Amazon shutdown of the social media app might have you thinking about Big Tech’s power. Add to this news that the messaging service WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, is grabbing more of your personal data.
January 13, 2021 Parler CEO says social media app, favored by Trump supporters, may not return Matze said that Parler was talking to more than one cloud computing service but refused to disclose names, citing the likelihood of harassment for the companies involved.
January 13, 2021 Washington Post, owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, endorses shutdown of Parler The editorial board from The Washington Post came out in support of censorship amid big tech's ongoing efforts to shut down the social media platform Parler.Â
January 13, 2021 Vivek Ramaswamy & Jed Rubenfeld: Twitter and Facebook censorship is a free-speech violation Conventional wisdom holds that technology companies are free to regulate content because they are private, and the First Amendment protects only against government censorship. That view is wrong: Google, Facebook and Twitter should be treated as state actors under existing legal doctrines.
January 12, 2021 Glenn Greenwald blasts 'dangerous irony' of Twitter warning Ugandans of censorship ahead of elections Investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald blasted Twitter on Tuesday for what he called a darkly hypocritical warning to Ugandans ahead of the African nation's presidential and parliamentary elections later this week.