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from moscow thanks for joining us tonight here on. the program. governments has accused facebook of abusing its power of the social media giant block in the country. through the story. rough start to the day if you are a news junkie or a millennial and facebook is the open in the morning because on sunday all of a stray a wake up to find that it's go to news platform how to pull the plug on any and all roekel and international stories not obviously sparked shock but also outrage now this is all because mogs are not a fan of proposed legislation in the country which would force attack and social media companies to pay news publishers to repose that content facebook says this is on fat i'm not willing to negotiate and so on this really bold blanket ban

a move which has infuriated the australian government for its book. sections were unnecessary they're way heavy handed and they will damage it's reputation here in australia their decision to block the strains access to government sites were completely unrelated to the media code which is yet to pass through the senate facebook's actions to unfriend australia today cutting off essential information services on health and emergency services. as they were disappointing i am in regular contact with the leaders of other nations on these issues we will not be intimidated by big seeking to pressure our parliaments as he votes on our important news media bargaining code so what we just heard that and this is what's really got people tugging on facebook now the proposed legislation is about news but facebook has gone beyond the media and it's blocked pages that really can and do affect

people's lives so the bureau of meteorology blocked far and a much and see services which post updates about deadly bushfires they've been taken down to charities including women's shelters or legal services for aboriginal people as well as very crucially state health departments which pay a really big role of course in the ongoing pandemic now some of those pages have been restored but it's too little too late straight out like all this is preparing it's code that 19 facts in roll out and now hospitals are worried that they will not be able to get out information to the people extremely concerning to find this morning that since vincent's melbourne's facebook page has been blocked these during the pandemic and on the eve of crucial covert vaccine distribution we hope this situation can be rectified very shortly now a facebook spokesperson said that the banning of no news organizations was a mistake but some would argue that the reputational damage has been done already this is just one example we've seen recently over the past few months governments

and big tech facing off again and again but is this just sort. adding fuel to the fire well absolutely particularly stateside how many times have we seen mark zuckerberg being pulled into those endless hearings and facing accusations that his platform doesn't tackle harmful content enough that it's engaged in censorship that it doesn't react quickly to allegations of abuse facebook in these circumstances often raises its hands and says you know what it's easier said than done it's a very difficult almost impossible task while the astray and situation now shows that actually it is that easy whereas apparently removing the live stream of the christ church massacre in new zealand wasn't for many this was the icing on top of the cake for a long time big tech face says allegations that it wields too much power the banning of course of the democratically elected president of the united states donald trump being the latest case in point so this latest situation just another

example of silicon valley overreach and these actions will only confirm the concerns that an increasing number of countries are expressing about the behavior of big tech companies who think they are bigger than governments and that the rules should not apply to them they may be changing the world but that doesn't mean they run it what today's events do confirm for australians is the immense market. of these media digital giants these digital giants loom very very large. in our economy. and on the digital landscape the hash tag delete facebook trending people are asking is it compatible with to more chrissy some thought that facebook was too big to fail but looking at the anchor reactions it might well have triggered its own downfall here radio host carrie harrison professor of liberal studies market

retinal dan political commentator lawrence sharon davis take on a story on a story. although i don't like facebook by any means i also don't blame them for trying to put a stop to what i think is a very bad policy that in the end well only end up hurting smaller independent and perhaps even dissident sources in favor of a larger more establishment media sources these news organizations are disappearing that's really what's at stake and they really don't have any choice because they're not generating the kind of revenues necessary to run these news this content of which facebook reliance on it we have seen a whole cloth disruption of paid you know professional journalists guys that spent 30 years cutting their teeth and there are a lot of jobs because who's going to pay him $80.00 grand plus benefits to write a story when you can get to me on his you know no unfair if by no real credentials in journalism typing out something and make more money on those clicks

so the question is for democracy is what is the threshold where people deserve to have real information and should they have to pay for it should facebook profit on someone else's work without giving them some look you can understand facebook's desire not to give in and start paying for news stories like google did once the box opens there's $200.00 other countries surely saying we want some to facebook of what you do to their shareholders right if we start saying all right facebook will have to pay to feature news articles and news links what's stopping other forms of content from doing the same this whole social media i guess ecosystem has really spun out of control in terms of how it is monetize and actually a i think more equitable if i can use that word solution to this would be to start talking about ways to break up the monopoly that facebook does have on advertising and also on user data basically the biggest problem with facebook is that they're utterly controlling that narrative and they're completely shutting out news that

doesn't obey the narrative miss and this goes for almost. every issue down the line that's of the importance today let's remember back in around 2007 i happen to be one of those lucky ones who interviewed this guy who started facebook he was a nobody was still on my space my space everywhere and he said that he wanted to create an ecosystem similar to a a well at the time if we all remember dial up you know well it closed circuit environment where all your dating your shopping your opinions and basically people who weren't able to have real friends in life could have thousands of friends make believe friends and call them their friends and you would never have to leave that world and it would do everything for you well that dream has come true and now all of us are sitting in the middle of it going well wait a minute it's either all capitalism where anything goes and we can all charge for everything or it's part capitalism or it's something but we're at that time of growth now where we actually have to make the grown up decisions. millions of

americans are still without power days off the crippling winter storm swept across southern states texas has seen a record broken with temperatures plunging to manas 18 the 1st time in over 3 decades has led to vost black outside extensive damage to homes. this is this is a. very day's lady. and that is the other imbra. again you through to the 2 to wriggle the pandemic right here for birds and. despite the cold texas senator ted cruz is feeling the heat that's out of photos emerged online showing him flying to the mexican resort of cam coombs during the crisis cruz has since flown back to texas and apologized

but the story has caused a massive backlash on social media and he's not the only politician in hot water a local mayor was forced to step down after his response to pleas for help from locals. no one owes you will your family anything nor is it the local government's responsibility to support you trying times like this sink or swim it's your choice the city and county along with power provide any of the service owes you nothing it's pretty bad that texans just can't we're told every other part of the country this wouldn't but been a huge issue in the league we've seen mark for this action. so i see. the bill. you've got all the blankets out we try to all sleep together to keep us warm and then today when we got up there was no water we have no real update of when it's going to come on our phones barely work. one thought he's in texas struggled to get power back on line blaming the word on the wind turbines for the disaster

off they froze to hold others though allowing the blame squarely on the local government kaleb often has the details without electricity texas residents are resorting to some rather desperate measures in the hopes of staying warm they're firing up the grill and the generators and some of the even tried to use their cars to heat their homes resulting in several deaths and over 300 cases of carbon monoxide poisoning people are dying from carbon monoxide poisoning we have had so many calls in so many incidents that we can't even track them all the major oil refineries of the state has shut down due to freezing weather that bright new future of green energy isn't working out so well in the present the wind turbines that accounted for almost a quarter of texas' energy last year have frozen to a standstill every source of power that the state of texas has has been compromised whether it be renewable power such as wind or solar but also as i mentioned today.

access to coal generated power access to gas generated power also have been compromised alternative energy. sources have been a key aspect of the democrats' push for eco friendly policies a key plank of our build back better recovery plan is building a modern resilient climate infrastructure and clean energy future that will create millions of good pain union jobs critics are blaming joe biden and the democrats saying they pushed climate friendly policies a bit too hard and branding the outcome catastrophic live shows how the green new deal would be a deadly deal for the united states of america in the last few days if proven and the thing that we need oil and gas relying solely on renewable energy would be catastrophic many of these sources have proven to be unreliable the united states may be a global superpower but at home it's a lacking power quite literally all of this critics say are symptoms of america in

decline. are seeing new york staying in the u.s. and it's been confirmed around $5000.00 national guard troops are expected to remain in washington until the middle of next month they've been stationed there in the wake of the capitol hill riot to america's foreign friends uk as more. one of the places that i actually lived in was a news anchor was an el paso texas where you had fort bliss that is the 2nd largest army post in the country when we pulled up to the gates here this morning it looks like i was walking into fort bliss there is a there's a whole street that's blocked off here that goes right into a checkpoint you'll see that these cars they go in they get checked pointed by police by national guard and you see this is all happening literally just you know maybe 2 football fields away from our u.s. capitol you can also see to the left of the capitol here in our life we have almost like these little trailers that have been put on we have a lot of these members where they're actually staying there was 26000 troops here

during the inauguration the numbers starting to go down but they want to have 5000 troops here scheduled again like you said till march 4th because you have a lot of cuban members talking underground and in sub right it's in you know you have a lot of these different you know social media other outlets and they're going to talking about possibly coming back again on march 4th believing that trump will be reinstated as the president again the fence looks like it goes down for miles now it goes all the way to the reflection pool in front of the capitol you know this is the people's house kids come here on their snow days to slide down the hill and now it's completely occupied by the national guard here i want you to look at the fencing right now normally you have barbed wire fencing you have barbed wire fencing outside of federal prisons this is razor wire this will kill you if you try to breach this fence here ok that fence that goes all the way around the perimeter of the capital $50000000.00 now again there's talks of having the national guard stay here until the early fall it's it's going to cost american taxpayers

$2650000.00 per day to have $5000.00 troops here. to russia sporting vicodin oxy has arrived in gaza israel had only been preventing the shipment from getting to medical facilities that the initial 2000 shots were intended for people in poor health medical personnel working in intensive care units as well as the emergency services for the following is a translated report from also the shuttle. after coming under international criticism israel has allowed the shipment of the 1st batch of the russian vaccine sputnik v into the gaza strip through the qur'an border crossing in almost a. day the 1st batch of the russian black sea has arrived it will be great help for all citizens certainly all of us will take the shot hope other badges will arrive in gaza as well otherwise the street will simply crack under the pressure of the granddad. according to the health ministry the 2000 doses which have been shipped

are intended for individuals in poor health and medical personnel dealing with coronavirus infected patients in intensive care units and emergency services staff but a lot of the programme will get underway on sunday morning into centers in order to cover all the provinces of girls the vaccination campaign will go on until we run out of jobs the health ministry affirms that the russian vaccine is one of the best and most effective among international analogs the russian vaccine will help cope with the consequences of the pandemic affecting medical facilities due to a lack of capacity. receive other batches of the vaccine in the near future which will allow us to inoculate the whole population express our deepest gratitude to russia to its president governments and people what they did for palestine. the shipment comes after israel prohibited vaccine supplies to medical facilities in gaza the reversal of the ban opens up the prospect for future shipments of the

facts into gaza yes or for more. people in gaza call israel's decision to hamper the delivery of sputnik vivax into gaza blackmail that's amid thousands of sick people including children who need to be vaccinated urgently. for goldman sachs banker richard sharp as it surely would confirm less than a chairman of the b.b.c. is there as a vicious my. and with an impressive list of contacts sharp as a background in finance and has worked for some notable institutions in the sector is also known for backing the ruling conservatives by donating hefty sums besides that he's also an unpaid adviser to the u.k.'s finance minister during a pandemic and worked for current prime minister boris johnson when he was mayor of london and the chairman of the b.b.c. as a position appointed by the queen on the recommendation of the government with a shot will take home our $160000.00 pounds per year around $220000.00 for working

a 3 or 4 days per week british journalist and author francis beckett gave us his thoughts on the appointment the position you see is the. one who. tries to maintain its independence and claims and prides itself. it has to. its relationship with the government. continually compromise its independence and that it tries to pretend on no new former prime minister has used the power of control. of control of the german in quite the overtly political way that boris johnson has just used the trouble with the accord. that it is a bank but that it is a banker with close ties to the conservative party and the banker who. can you see all of having of having

a political agenda that is in large. large protests continue in spain over the arrest of catherine wrap up a cell who's been jailed for slandering the crown and glorifying terrorism it was it was arrested on tuesday at the university of leeds where he and his supporters have barricaded themselves inside hundreds of public figures have spoken out in support of the artist while amnesty international described his attention as an excessive restriction on his freedom of expression protests in support of the 32 year old have been taking place across the country resulting in riots and clashes with police. i. feel. i.

am. back in 2018 public her cell was convicted by a spanish court over tweets calling the former king a mafia boss he also accused police of torturing and killing demonstrators and migrants herself our legislation covering spiny is right to freedom of expression dubbed the gag law by critics a court ruled spanish law prohibited such expressions of opinion a member of the catalan national assembly told us suppressing free speech is inexcusable. hispanic over many years in creating the fundamental rights artist their right to free speech and create 3 creation through government is they call themselves the most progressive government in the history for spain also for them the case of trouble has been brought to them because is

a clear sign that this is not true or not this is one of the reasons why we only need and it's not because we want to build a new a new contract with a more open and free loaders we want one more open system no system which accept. the killed your creation like the one i sell or others like. so of course we need this this change so we are fighting for this for a more free. 3. now for the fallout from last month's trading frenzy over game stop the american gaming company one of the key players in the story keith kill has testified to u.s. congress about a jaw dropping surge of the result of shares that's offer a lawsuit was filed against him accusing investor of violating numerous industry rules here earlier laid out his defense. the idea that i use social media to

promote game stop stalk to unwitting investors is preposterous i was abundantly clear that my channel was for educational purposes only and that my aggressive style of investing was unlikely to be suitable for most folks checking out the channel or the lawsuits against kills filed in massachusetts earlier this week in claims he hid behind the status of an amateur while having license securities credentials furthermore the suit accuses him of manipulative conduct harming the integrity of the market trading frenzy around game stop erupted in mid january the company was having a tough time because of the pandemic and that saw traditional investors betting on it stocks dropping but armchair traders and social media instead stoked interest in the company space sending its shares soaring artie's very own financial guru max kaiser thinks the whole story shows what exactly has been wrong with wall street for many years. what keith gill may or may not be involved with allegedly involved

whether wall street bets that that's a symptom of a much bigger problem the collusion between the central bank had funs citadel capital which is a big fund with major players connected to the federal reserve bank and they're engaged in massive fraud so this is a bit of a show trial with keith gill to distract and deflect attention from the massive fraud that's ongoing citadel central bank can griffith and others aren't involved in iraq it and they are defrauding the american public they're manipulating stock prices and they're undermining the american economy which is why so many people find themselves in such dire straits why the infrastructure in texas as and been built and people are freezing to death because the money's been stolen and given it can griffith who has just bought a 250000000 dollars apartment in park avenue where that money come from comes from ben bernanke he sits on his board former fed chairman feeding him inside

information it's not debate it's no debate about it it's clear we can see through the trading pick track record this is exactly what's going up. so many of mourning the death and on wednesday of 72 old conservative shock jock rush limbaugh some left leaning celebrities and a twitter users are celebrating insults have been trending on the social media platform never speak ill of the dead the poet tells us but the truth demands of recognition of some fux besides murdoch there's be no more destructive a practitioner of the big life of profits in u.s. history cancer to cancer r.i.p. rush rottenberg terry i would like to extend my deepest sympathies to the point of all who will know don't have to spend the rest of eternity with rush limbaugh. meanwhile many conservative politicians and pundits have paid tribute to the world cost them with money calling him a mention and hero rush limbaugh had

a strong influence in republican politics political political and media circles and was heavily criticized by liberals for his controversial views he was best known as the radio host of the rush limbaugh show that was awarded the medal of freedom by for president donald trump and as you know analysts and radio hosts they factions believe speaking ill of the dead has much deeper roots than politics he did not say things that were new to people he said things that people already believed and were kind of desperate for other people to say in public in the media so they could say yes yes that's me they flock to him because he said what they believe that has through the idea of dancing on his grave and celebrating his death that to me is a side effect of this collectivism that when you want groups to prosper and when you care about groups and you're all of a groups you must necessarily divest yourself of concern for individuals because individuals standing out is always

a problem to the collective and so what we have now is a country where people step up publicly say publicly right on social media things like he's getting the tour of hell as we speak not a minute too soon i'm going to get punished for this but my 1st thought was thank god rush limbaugh is dead it's awful and if you ask me it displays the destructive power of collectivism to a culture and we've gone so far down that road now so many people are so willing to abandon respect for the individual and speak ill of the dead as quickly and loudly as possible i'm a little concerned this culture has gone off a slope that we're not going to be able to come back from the news coming up in just a few moments time the team and i will be back with the latest headlines join us again.

nations human beings to change nature so i think you know the rules you this i think is one of those laws parasitic that's going to make people uneasy really why should we why should we be forced to buy time just because nature sizing them. off of the new brain why don't we get to choose the. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. according to a study by edelman 64 percent of consumers around the world will of buy or boycott a brand solely because of its position on a social or political issue this is more brands use

a social issues to build its marketing strategy making consumers focus not on the quality of the product but what owning that product might portray about them but it's not just products that people who are falling victim to the cancel culture some even being damned just with an accusation so is there a difference between the cancer culture and the cola culture and what role should a play in the present day environment we are going to look at it from a legal perspective as well as give you the 360 view of how this has become an effective political weapon used by both parties this censorship is not only coming from the government but also from media platforms we're going to tell you about the dangerous power play happening in australia i am scotty no hughes and you are watching the news is hughes here on our to america. you know there is no doubt words are powerful but within avenues of information

rapidly growing every day those who control the platforms which information is dispersed are increasing in power as well so the start of cell phone today show focus on the cancel culture and censorship is the author of words of 4 warriors fight back against a crazy socialist and the toxic liberal left and someone whose family has actually had to deal with this exact issue this week nationally syndicated radio host sam sorry but thank you so much for joining us sam thanks for having me you know it's a very interesting conversation that's been going on this is nothing new but i want to ask you what is going on do you think in today's culture and what makes it different from the past. well i think it's not terribly different from the past and i think that's that's sort of the problem that we're having is that gina carano called out and just said basically hey the government and the nazi government turned the people against against their their their neighbors for their different religious views how is that different than turning people against their neighbors

for their political views and for that she was she she lost her job she was attacked and here's the funny thing about that frankly is how do they know that they're the nazis in her in her scenario well and that because they basically went in and improved it as well and that's the thing sam you know this goes back to history sometimes you quote history and if you're quoting for it to be punished for actually quoting history of the facts that we do know happened to be par for the present day i think it's what people are scratching their heads about it on wait a minute how can that be wrong is it that we want to know we want to know history so that we don't repeat it but it comes down to words and you've written a book focused on this words but i have to i have to wonder when it comes to some of these words do you think they're bringing you this face value or it's just kind of talking points thrown around do you think people really understand what they mean and a good case of this would be socialism you know that this rally cry right now a fight for the conservatives are using but do you think most.