by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 14, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
I recently listened to a snippet of a Ben Shapiro interview with Amy Peikoff, Parler’s chief policy officer, wherein the de-platforming of the site by Amazon was discussed. This, on the heels of listening to a legal-issues analysis that affirmed my belief that...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 11, 2021 | Culture, Election, Opinion, Politics
The political and cultural aftermath of the Capitol riot is already upon us, with Big Tech opting to ‘cancel’ the Parler social media platform that has become a go-to refuge for conservatives and Trumpists unhappy with Twitter’s increasingly...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 9, 2021 | Opinion, Politics
Twitter’s editorial bias in policing the content that flows through its service has been ruffling the Right’s feathers for quite a while. The market responded, and Parler emerged as an alternative, with a promise of more freedom and less censorship. Google...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 16, 2020 | Culture, Election, Opinion, Politics
Joseph Epstein, a writer, essayist, and “visiting lecturer in literature and writing at Northwestern University,” set off the kerfuffle of the day with an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal that offered a bit of unsolicited advice to the First...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 10, 2020 | Economics, Politics
A bit over 20 years ago, social media was dominated by one company: America Online (AOL). It was a monster, and if you weren’t on AOL, you weren’t one of the cool kids. AOL’s market cap in December, 1999 was $222B (about $350B today). A month later,...
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