and, yes, that includes apple, amazon, facebook and google and also divest pension money out of these big tech stocks. why? well, because he says they can censor conservative voices including mr. trump and parler as an example. >> viewpoint discrimination is dangerous. and while they may have the right to do it legally, we also have the right to choose who we do business with. when you tell half of your customers to pound sand, they tend to believe you. and i think's what these companies have done. >> now, we'll see if it passes. there are other similar bills being considered and tallied in other states and possibly in tennessee in the future. so big tech is definitely under the microscope here. stuart: one more for you, susan. the two richest people on the planet, elon musk, jeff bezos, are they fighting over satellite internet projects that both of y mk m versusersusers bez

but mkm partners an, he recent -- analyst he recently ranked amazon, alphabet and facebook. and it was the best performer. it gained 76%. this year he said facebook is his top pick of the bunch, it will become an increasingly important play on social commerce and digital payment including through instagram shopping and what's app payments, says the stock is cheap. it's a spicy call. his call, not mine. jack: two more actionable ideas, ben, a very different company that's really trying to do some good. >> right. it's rutger therapeutics. they have a drug for a terrible disease x they released some data that was really disappointing, and the stock lost half its value. there's still hope for the treatment, and the company has a good with gene-editing platform. i think there's a lot of people think when the stock releases good data it jumps 100%, that's when it's time to buy, i like looking at them after blowups. jack: smart move. and carlton, something in the finance space. >> i am. i'm looking at raymond james ahead of earnings. basically, we're going to see some consolidation

. >> we've seen these five companies, apple, google, amazon, twitter and facebook target conservatives. viewpoint discrimination is dangerous and while they may have the right to do it legally we also have the right to choose who we do business with. reporter: that includes the permanent banning of president trump's suspensions and other gop members. also listing deplatform of parler as another example. parler, the subject after house congressional push to be investigated by the fbi over its role in the planning of the capitol riots. republican lawmakers pushing back, they have asked for twitter and facebook to also be investigated as well. despite the threats from d.c., we have big tech getting richer and richer, trading at record levels and a sign of wall street confidence that big tech will not be broken up or severely punished. >> when you tell half of your customers to pound sand, they tend to believe you.

downsizing with stores and restaurants shutting down during the pandemic big tech is now moving in amazon facebook and google have moved thousands of their employees to the big apple the 3 tech giants now have over $22000.00 employees in new york city and more are expected these silicon valley giants are buying up iconic office buildings another aspect of new york city life public transportation is also not doing so well the jobs of thousands of transit workers are on the brink as the trains shut down each night in order to be clean and comply with health regulations new york city is going to enter 2021 with the significant loss at this point this city has actually dropped off the list of america's top 10 zip codes many rich folks have packed up and. dawn the cost of rent has decreased by 30 percent so how normal will this new normal be once restrictions are finally lifted it looks like many things have changed in a way that is not easily reversed caleb mop and r.t. new york veteran american broadcaster larry king is being treated in the hospital after being diagnosed with copd 19 he's the host of

is that amazon facebook twitter and google they own just about everything now i want to bring section 230 into this because we've seen some bipartisan support for reforms which could make social media platforms liable for their users post and all of the content they put out there how do you see this playing out now that we have biden in the white house and democrats as the majority in congress. right so for people who aren't familiar in the audience with section 230 essentially what it says is that if a social media platform is just that a platform that does not control or editorialize its users content and that platform cannot be held legally liable for what someone might post on their site for example if i post copyrighted material on to youtube the person who owns that copyright cannot then turn around and sue youtube for copyright infringement because hey they are just a platform you know at the core of that measure i think it's a good idea and i think it's important for the free exchange of information on the internet however what president trump did in the executive order that i

i'm going to -- twitter is kind of teeny-weeny tech, it is amazon, facebook, google, that control 90%internet and all activity. if you are talking about your day-to-day life, not just a private citizen, but as an elected official, you can't get away from them. even if you were walking around with an old dell laptop and using a microsoft internet explorer, you would still be encountering the services of the google. they are so big, so monopolistic, you can't avoid them. >> companies grow and do shrink. and i think that they have made a terrible business decision. but to be clear our goal in advancing this is to get these companies to write their wrong. it's not to hurt them, it is to get them to realize they have made a mistake. this is not about conservative or liberal, it is not about president trump. when half of the country is told they can't voice their opinions, that is bad for the entire country. >> dagen: it goes beyond voicing opinions, it goes to the fact that they have pulled the plug with apple, google, and amazon pulling the plug on a competitor acting with what seems like

giants have already a race the president's online presence you tube has now joined the likes of amazon facebook and twitter and suspending donald trump's social media pages as well as purging thousands of his followers claiming that they could incite violence it follows last week's storming of the capitol building in washington d.c. which some leading politicians and mainstream media have branded as domestic terrorism in remarks in the oval office trump insisted the moves by big tech were attacks on free speech that cannot be tolerated a few words about the president of the salt on free speech we have seen in recent days the efforts to said sir cancel and blacklist our fellow citizens are wrong and they are dangerous what is needed now is for us to listen to one another not to silence one another as these social media giants continue to crackdown on the president my colleague nick e. aaron earlier spoke to legal internet and put politics experts about whether the platforms are indeed too powerful. they just won an election they're going to see how far they can push this this is a stress test to

already over but who raised the presidents online presence here to present joins the likes of amazon facebook and twitter and suspending donald trump media pages as well as purging thousands of his fellow is claiming they could incite violence if i was last week storming of the capitol building in washington d.c. which some leading politicians and mainstream media have branded as domestic terrorism as the social media giants continue to crackdown on the president i spoke to legal internet on politics that experts about whether the platforms are indeed too powerful. they just won an election they're going to see how far they can push this this is a stress test to see how far the law will go how long how much people will tolerate and are going to go as far as they can because drunk with power of they know which way the wind is blowing donald trump is no longer going to be in the white house almost all of these companies face antitrust suits that are going to be decided by the by department of justice and so now there is going to be less of a priority to maybe make these arguments internally tha

already all but to raise the president's online presence you tube has now joined the likes of amazon facebook and twitter in suspending donald trump social media pages as well as purging thousands of his followers claiming they could incite violence it does follow last week's storming of the capitol building in washington d.c. which some leading politicians and mainstream media have branded as domestic terrorism but there is pushback against the growing role power of the big online companies r.t. america's john hardy reports. the twitter hit list continues the social media site has permanently suspended more than $70000.00 accounts accused of promoting conspiracy theories or violent rhetoric including most prominently banning donald trump from the platform friday concluding his tweets constituted a risk to public safety and could potentially lead to more violence in the wake of these efforts twitter stocks tumbled as much as 12 percent monday and continued to fall today the crackdown has drawn ire and criticism from some republican lawmakers who say twitter is attacking the president's right