#Biden’s big tech ties and other commentary

#Biden’s big tech ties and other commentary

“#Biden’s big tech ties and other commentary” From the right: Biden’s Big Tech Ties President-elect Joe Biden is building an administration with ties to all five Big Tech firms that “clamped down this week on President Trump and Parler, a social-media site popular with conservatives,” reports the Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross. At least 14 of…

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#Stop politicizing the pandemic and other commentary

#Stop politicizing the pandemic and other commentary

“#Stop politicizing the pandemic and other commentary” Libertarian: Stop Politicizing the Pandemic “There is an all-too-familiar gracelessness in politicized conversations about the coronavirus,” sighs Reason’s Matt Welch. Anti-lockdowners and dour mask fanatics alike “feel surrounded by murderers and denialists,” who “are either intentionally trying to make things worse or just too blinkered to admit there’s…

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#How to stand up to China and other commentary

#How to stand up to China and other commentary

“#How to stand up to China and other commentary” Foreign desk: How To Stand Up to China Beijing’s neighbors took grim note last month when China issued 14 trade demands to Australia, writes Robert A. Manning at The National Interest, because the list seems “a very conscious reprise” of imperial Japan’s “now-infamous Twenty-One Demands” to…

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#Investor Lonsdale breaks from Facebook to protest move to ‘authoritarian left’

#Investor Lonsdale breaks from Facebook to protest move to ‘authoritarian left’

“#Investor Lonsdale breaks from Facebook to protest move to ‘authoritarian left’” Joe Lonsdale is taking a break from Facebook to protest what he calls the social network’s capitulation to the “authoritarian left.” The 38-year-old Silicon Valley investor — a Stanford-educated protege of Peter Thiel and co-founder of data-mining giant Palantir — told The Post he’s…

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#Creating a costly COVID narrative and other commentary

#Creating a costly COVID narrative and other commentary

“#Creating a costly COVID narrative and other commentary” Media desk: Creating a Costly COVID Narrative The “news media can still be a very formidable force” when “there is a panic, the subject is unfamiliar to the masses and they speak with a generally uniform voice,” notes John Ziegler at Mediaite. The pandemic gave the prestige…

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#Muslims call for French goods boycott to protest caricatures

#Muslims call for French goods boycott to protest caricatures

“#Muslims call for French goods boycott to protest caricatures” DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Muslims in the Middle East and beyond on Monday broadened their calls for boycotts of French products and protests, as a clash over depictions of the Prophet Muhammad and the limits of free speech intensified. Kuwaiti stores pulled French yogurts and…

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#San Francisco free speech rally attacked by counter-protestors

#San Francisco free speech rally attacked by counter-protestors

“#San Francisco free speech rally attacked by counter-protestors” A free speech rally organized by conservative activists in San Francisco quickly devolved into chaos and was immediately canceled Saturday when several hundred counter-protesters showed up and attacked those gathered. Right-wing group Team Save America planned the rally to protest Twitter, charging that the social media giant…

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