crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only posts really exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful. to sit down and talk. unprecedented display of authority by big tech social media science move to purge the us president and some of his supporters from their platforms donald trump is now banned from twitter permanently over how his tweets might be received and interpreted what they're doing if they're going out in expressing our message that it's ok to go ahead in certain sort of speech if you don't agree with the problem is that tran addressed these people and i did them too much on the carpet. he hears from former advisor to donald trump and one of the president's closest

allies that's roger stone who believes that this is part of a wider trend. for the 1st time in the history of our country we have the censorship of all mass communications. and other news anger in prime minister's lashed out of what he calls the e.u. slow efforts to roll out mass vaccination saying the country's been in talks with suppliers not approved by the bloc. good morning to you thanks for joining us this is r.t. international big tech has flex its muscles with social media networks purging the us president and some of his supporters to from their platforms for example twitter has permanently suspended president donald trump's account citing quote the risk of further incitement to violence let's get into this story now with artie's. clearly

. blame it seems donald trump for the violence resort capitol hill 1st of all though why is this such a big deal well it's a game changer because of the significance behind this over the years we've seen slowly ramping up censorship slowly ramping up. of carried out by by judge take jabs take billionaires on their platforms on facebook you know they've been they've been removing over the years conservative voices republican voices small to start with and bigger and bigger the donald on reddit for example many many conservative figureheads on twitter and on facebook and now what is a storage clee been something under the purview of government tyrants dictators at times even democratically elected governments censorship is now under the purview of text yards of billionaires and the i'm elected i don't like that you know

billionaires and this is something that many people are having huge problem with in that the censorship is now uncontrollable we are living in all wells 1984 free speech no longer exists in america it died with big and what's left is only there for a chosen few this is absolute insanity to it it may ban me for this but i'm willing to accept the fate your decision to permanently ban president trump is a serious mistake the ayatollah can tweets but trump can't says a lot about the people who run twitter silencing people not to mention the president of the us is what happens in china not our country. this wasn't one would 2 platforms removing trump this was seemingly a coordinated effort across take platforms of all cards dischord twitched with the

book instagram snap chat they've they've all removed trump and you know this is this is something that many had been calling for for years many on the left especially you know they wanted trump's voice silence they saw it as destructive they sort of even malign but it did it would never come to that because this is after all the most powerful person in the world often called the president of the united states you know you'd think a certain amount of respect is. now that he's gone an awful lot of people very happy knows they've done for silicon valley companies to stop enabling this more serious behavior and going further than they have already but permanently banned this man from their platforms and put in place policies to prevent their technology from being used by the nation's leaders to fuel insurrection. i just realized that

in the same way that the stone capitol hill they social media johnson basically formed the. attack donald trump and in a similar fashion i would argue what a lot of people say was this was totally justified he had it coming that's the big question was it one of the what happened on capitol hill there's no underestimating the impact the significance and symbolism of what happened the halls of congress the fault someone shot on capitol hill i mean this isn't something that can be a race this isn't something that can be forgotten this is a president it has now happened this is the united states we're talking about a country which is made a business of exporting. regime change revolution democracy worldwide and now this is happened in their own country i mean many many people who believe in american exceptionalism that the united states and americans are

exceptional in this well for them the what happened on capitol hill was a huge blow the fuse blew and this is the reason divide. democrats believe that this was an absolute catastrophe there are some republicans that the quiet you know the hard line of what happened but it is viewed in the united states is something incredibly destructive what happened on capitol hill completely unnecessary and entirely paid for.

some people are going to ask and i think the right to us this is the thin end of the wedge because once any kind of censorship begins doesn't end quickly usually opportunity it kind of spreads and it's i will if i come down this person i can ban them as well and i can pretty much say what i want whereas where this heading well look at look at this where i can go on twitter right now and i can call for the overthrow of donald trump and nothing will come of it i can call for the overthrow of the democratically elected prime minister of great britain johnson or the president of brazil nobody will do anything but if i say overthrow joe biden that's it. and this is all to mickey the issue that these censorship is entirely selective it is it is targeting conservatives and republicans and very few others so far but you know if they if they can get away with targeting them what's to stop them from doing for others that they don't like in the future

and to add insult to injury after donald trump's account was suspended he went on the official presidential account protests and he eat tweeted from there that he will be silenced and that was scrubbed almost almost immediately you know that they they obviously feel that donald trump towards the end of his presidency that you know there's there's nothing he can fight back with and they're just it's just letting it out but there is also the fact that parlor has been banned power is an app that positions itself as an alternative to twitter and free speech alternative where people come out can come out and say whatever you want which is you. know especially especially important now in this digital world where communication is a greasing the online and where many people do to appreciate all the content moderation as they call. and what happened is that app store the i phone app

store and the google store they banned this application saying that it isn't doing enough to censor. 3 unwanted communications on its platform. apparently they believe pilar is responsible for all user generated content on parlor therefore by the same logic apple must be responsible for all actions taken by their phones every car bomb every illegal cell phone conversation every illegal crime committed on an i phone standards not applied to twitter facebook or even apple themselves apply to parlor. alternately this is a huge milestone for those tech billionaires because they have they have managed to do what few others in this in this world have and that is the silence the president of the united states and we must. add silence it because dormant trump used twitter

problem early for moost of his communication for new hires for firings were for big policy announcements and now he's been you know he is chief tool for address in his supporters for adults in the public has been taken taken away from him and on the basis that the he was you you know maligned destructive and what he was saying was was dangerous even though he didn't call on his supporters the storm capitol hill and he later condemned it nevertheless they're citing that you know that what they did is good for america but it wasn't the f.b.i. the cia were tasked with securing america wasn't the pentagon which defends america that decided that donald trump must be removed it was billionaires it was ted billionaires who now see it within their power to ban the president of the united states from from from their platform. and given that in reality he may very well

shortly be in a defacto the leader of the political opposition in america it's going to be fascinating to see how he's going to communicate with the half of the country who still support him it seems really interesting stuff many thanks ira. the press spoke to long time republican strategist and trump just done who the president granted clemency to us to start remember was convicted of lying to congress under witness tampering back in 2019 he says the suppression of conservative voices is going to fall on for the 1st time in the history of our country we have the censorship of all mass communications whether it is whether is broadcast television network television whether it is cable whether it is print media or whether it is the internet there is one overwhelming trudgeon narrative being forced on the american people and that created the atmosphere in which

a legitimate compelling i would say overwhelming evidence of voter fraud in cyber manipulation of the vote was dismissed as conspiracy theory people who want to be in and silence others that simply means that they cannot win a fact based debate that they're not interested in honest electoral competition or a battle of ideas they have no ideas other than central control and socialism rather than doing away with our constitutional rights and now what we see is an effort to take what happened tragically at the capitol and use it as an excuse to curtail our civil liberties even further this is a dangerous dangerous slope for america and you can watch the full interview with roger stone on america's the press and also on line of portable t.v. . but we also discuss this issue with julio rivera editorial director of reactionary times dot com with federica bindiya professor of political science

there is a feline i mean freedom of speech is guaranteed that. invitation to violence that is a completely different think what they're doing if they're going ahead and expressing a message to the american people and to a lot of these other silicon valley giant bigots. ok to go ahead and send sort of a speech that you don't agree with and that is contrary to the spirit of the 1st amendment in america and contrary to the spirit of free speech the problem with such a media is that they have to comply with the french rules for instance in many european countries hate speech hyland speech you know nancy nancy steamboats. dynamic from crimes that are advertised on its own. if you felt you're going if you're taking it there and yeah they got. you one of the one who

said that they were not involved with time i didn't the problem is not the election the problem is that trump addressed these people and i did them too much on the capital and these is intimidation the guy lost with peace and conditional there's nothing wrong with marching about what was more on that was not that he's going to get it and they're getting 6 average not a peaceful process i don't call that peaceful process one that you know smashes windows get inside you know what if if that happened on the new shots that were fired. that there was the police didn't respond soon enough and strong enough i'm very afraid because i just got the platforms off of you to. new year's eve they actually took the reactionary times facebook channel away and i'm afraid if you extrapolate that to a larger sense are they going to suddenly start the platforming stations carry people like rush limbaugh sean hannity all the major conservative talk boyce's in

america are they going to be silenced suddenly you know the rules are changing they're changing in real time you have a democratic party which is shown a lot of tendencies which lean towards fascism now have absolute power they have the house they have the senate and they. we have the white house we are does and the moment is really can't just and the problem is and i repeat the trend in sided to hate and violence he says nothing to do with cancer but you're not you know only it was a big difference between the way the media treated president barack obama and the way they treated president trump and i think we're already seeing that slate going back toward allow labarre what's the one you're worried about the fact that abide look if you say that president trample was treated differently them than obama you have to give me the facts the numbers i didn't ask it were 9 lives have a laugh i read yours you don't want to t.v.

in the last 4 years how could you say i they were not treated differently. then and there. while the us flag was flown at half mast on the capitol building in washington on friday in honor of a policeman who died from injuries he received guarding the building from protesters is the 5th person to have died as a result of the riot a federal murder investigation is expected to be opened in the case. of the bodies of 3 people including a child have been recovered from an avalanche that engulfed around 6 buildings at a local ski resort this was in the russian city of the risk located inside the arctic circle earlier a teenage boy was pulled from the snow he's in a critical condition in hospital authorities of want of the risk of more avalanches in the area local roads closed as a precaution prosecutor's office is open the investigation following the incident. in greece prime minister has lost patience with the slow pace of the vaccine

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in the depths. for a mate in the shallowness. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. hungary's lashed out at the e.u. over what it sees as its tardy efforts of procuring a vaccine the country has broken ranks with brussels by entering job negotiations with russia china and israel its relevant splits. e.u. commission president is on the phone the line is struggling to keep the states in line when it comes to vaccines she's warned the nations not to try and do their own deals the only framework we are negotiating in is as $27.00 we do this

together and nonmember state on this legal binding basis is allowed to negotiate in parallel or to have a contract and parallel the loudest voice unhappy at brussels being in sole charge of vaccine procurement is coming from hungary with prime minister viktor orban saying the current plan could lead to months more of a lock down if we only rely on the western vaccines the restrictions will have to be maintained for several more months if we can find a safe and proven vaccine elsewhere we can speed up the process mr obama said that hungry had received only 800000 doses of the pfizer take vaccine and was budapest to be able to choose its own deals unfortunately use poaches of vaccines has been very slow so hungry is carrying out negotiations with israel russia and china as well because if we wait the vulnerable situation we currently have will persist the e.u.

commission says that their plan will provide enough vaccine to cover everyone in the e.u. and then some of the whole portfolio covers $2300000000.00 doses of vaccine so this is more than enough to vaccinate the whole european population ever the euro skeptic in the block the hungarian prime minister also pointed to a freshly brake. to britain the vaccine program there is something to emulate the british instead of letting brussels do it negotiated for themselves and are in a much better position now earlier in the week the e.u. approved the us manufacturing vaccine for use it will be rolled out on monday across the e.u. alongside the buy on take back seat feature all over r.t. early. on the coronavirus situation in france shows no sign of easing as authorities extend restrictions already in place across the country the move comes

to the dismay of many businesses who are concerned about their future as i shall do when ski has more for us. france remains under couvade restrictions the border with the u.k. will also remain closed for the moment for all but essential travel reasons the prime minister confirming what many fear that. the time cause and come to return to normal was to admit one person to intensive care every 7 minutes and one in 2 people in intensive care their focus of 90. that means the curfew currently set at 8 pm in most parts of france will continue at least for the next few weeks while a further 10 departments saying there could be tightened that will not start at 6 pm borders restaurants cultural places all hope to be opening in the next 2 weeks that's now been pushed back with february looking more likely another blow to

a sector which says it is all move verge of collapse. from 5 to 7 pm where people leave work so there's obviously a lot of turnover because when people leave at 5 they want to have wandered around so the situation has now been complicated. to all the difference has a serious effect on revenue it's the time when people come in and try things so as a bakery clients don't want to come in but this usually doesn't mean 85 percent of our sales revenue between $5.00 and 7 pm so there's a restaurant we try and get by we're now being hit even harder so we look for new solutions to survive front which has been criticised for being slow to roll out the vaccine program again 19 is also seeing a rise in a new variant that was detected last month in the u.k. variant is said to spread much faster now the government says it stepping up its vaccination campaign and over 600 centers open by the end of january but is also

struggling to convince the many citizens that they need to. the jab. and i wish him a dentist so why was it is important to shore call him so no patients that works in nation make sense you want to stop him endemic we need to go through this it doesn't hurt and you have total trust in our scientists and those who created this vaccine so i call and never want to get another latent danger and comes to protect themselves and to protect the french population is a whole. new story we're committed to having the facts and as soon as possible is a decisive step in the nationwide to attempt to control the condemning.

as new code of rape cases registered remain around the 15000 mark on a daily basis in france the government appears to be struggling with how to make a dent in a virus that said to have already claimed tens of thousands of lives. this virus like all viruses in general is constantly mutating sort of its varieties both the one that was identified in the u.k. in the one that was noted in south africa and also go through the path of mutation as a result of virus becomes more infectious meaning it spreads faster not more powerful but more contagious but this may well happen in france in the case of those who have not traveled either to the u.k. or south africa do not know anyone who would associate themselves with these

so-called patient 0 so in the end the mutated virus is more or less you know factious wish justifies the control measures the 1st. strictures the masks and all the precautions in general reinforced. part of our recap of the year just skull we take a look at tick tock which was the most downloaded app of 2020 well ahead of facebook whatsapp even zoom which took off as people shifted to working from home artie's tells us more. if someone asked me to think of words or names when looking back at 2020 through all the courses i don't look there as well as. logged out. by didn't i did then say take time. they say to really get to know someone you've got to walk a mile in their shoes so welcome to put the chinese alps 2020 under the microscope

i've dragged you into the take talk. enough of my own lame attempts of take thought even before last year the op was breaking one record after another over taking older apps but in the 1st quarter of 2020 it got the most downloads for any ever 3 months with 315000000 across the app store and google play. easy people just love silly home video it's like its own pandemic with more and more users realizing they've been invited to a global stage bus it's actually about the real pandemic after all the best time to get carried away with filming how you dance in pajamas or how your pets screwed something up is when you're locked up.

like. what it was the year when any progressive business owner came to be understand if you're not on take dog hell yeah you're missing out on at all there's one big problem getting to the bottom of how the cops i'll go with. how about how much cash there if you in the old school rich and powerful club were lucky enough to even get close to the numbers of using young take talkers are getting here's a promotional take taught by amazon owned by the richest country on earth. with $200000.00 hits that had graphics designers and more behind it and here's

teleport from the philippines nodding to me that there is something to me and maybe it's time to be friends of the day. with half a 1000000000 views no designer required so if you know the secret keeper to yourself the jackpot is all yours and to top it all off 21 feet will also be remembered for the mightiest of governments trying to take talk down probably not because it and these teenage success but in the name of american security well look at the sex stuff we may be banning fix stuff it can't be controlled for security reasons but in china we protect the privacy. of american citizens and their information is a transit we have to have the total security from china to talk has too much data apparently it knows too much about you and me by the way probably no more than

facebook or google wanted to ban the chinese judges overruled and he said in the us the power must be american owned at least in part now that's parts gotten smaller with that partial take top to take over still in limbo the platform for microbe videos is big enough it seems to push back even against a giant. although that with more often. antoninus order is a big client accomplishes and do you understand it brings spontaneous order because it's the hardest money ever in history humans gold did a fairly decent job for many years thousands of years but it got entirely financial ice 2008 and a span of relegated to the status. this

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