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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. 

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.

January 12, 2021

Amazon was Americans' favorite way to buy groceries in 2020

Amazon beat traditional supermarkets and was Americans’ favorite way to purchase groceries in 2020, a new report claims.

January 12, 2021

Ingraham: Too-powerful tech oligarchs silence GOP while giving full reign to China, radical Islamists

The uproar over Big Tech's crackdown on social media users like President Trump and upstart platforms like Parler has little to do with the First Amendment, Laura Ingraham told viewers Monday.

January 11, 2021

Parler CEO on 'shocking' restrictions by Amazon, Apple and Google: 'You just never think it will happen'

Parler CEO John Matze told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Monday he and his colleagues had theorized that Amazon Web Services or one of the social media company's other necessary vendors could deny them service.